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Old 02-01-2004, 06:59 PM
Bozeman Bozeman is offline
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Default Confidence interval question

Supposes you have a possibly biased coin. You flip it n times, getting m heads. What interval can you say it's probability of heads is in with 95% confidence? With 67% confidence?

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Old 02-04-2004, 09:20 PM
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Default Re: Confidence interval question

If we can assume that n is large, then it should be:

p±1.96*sqrt(m(n-m)/n^3) for 95% confidence and

p±0.98*sqrt(m(n-m)/n^3) for 67% confidence
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