[理学]商务统计学第八章习题chap08-TIF-BSAFC5.doc

CHAPTER 8: CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION The width of a confidence interval estimate for a proportion will be narrower for 99% confidence than for 95% confidence. wider for a sample size of 100 than for a sample size of 50. narrower for 90% confidence than for 95% confidence. narrower when the sample proportion is 0.50 than when the sample proportion is 0.20. ANSWER: c TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate KEYWORDS: confidence interval, proportion, properties, width When determining the sample size for a proportion for a given level of confidence and sampling error, the closer to 0.50 that is estimated to be, the sample size required __________. is smaller is larger is not affected can be smaller, larger or unaffected ANSWER: b TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate KEYWORDS: confidence interval, proportion, properties A 99% confidence interval estimate can be interpreted to mean that if all possible samples are taken and confidence interval estimates are developed, 99% of them would include the true population mean somewhere within their interval. we have 99% confidence that we have selected a sample whose interval does include the population mean. Both of the above. None of the above. ANSWER: c TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Moderate KEYWORDS: confidence interval, interpretation If you were constructing a 99% confidence interval of the population mean based on a sample of n=25 where the standard deviation of the sample s = 0.05, the critical value of t will be 2.7969 2.7874 2.4922 2.4851 ANSWER: a TYPE: MC DIFFICULTY: Easy KEYWORDS: critical value, t distribution Which of the following is not true about the Student’s t distribution? It has more area in the tails and less in the center than does the normal distribution. It is used to construct confidence intervals for the population mean when the population standard deviation is known. It is bell shaped and symmetrical. As the number of degrees of freedom increases, the t distribution approaches the normal distribution. ANSWER