Confidence Intervals; One-Sample Z-Interval - HP 40gs User Manual

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Results

Confidence intervals

One-Sample Z-Interval

Menu name
Inputs
Inference aplet
The results are:
Result Description
Test T T-Test statistic.
Prob Probability associated with the T-Test
statistic.
Critical T Boundary values of T associated with
the α level that you supplied.
The confidence interval calculations that the HP 40gs can
perform are based on the Normal Z-distribution or
Student's t-distribution.
Z-INT: μ 1
This option uses the Normal Z-distribution to calculate a
confidence interval for m, the true mean of a population,
when the true population standard deviation, s, is known.
The inputs are:
Field Definition
name
Sample mean.
x
σ
Population standard deviation.
n Sample size.
C Confidence level.
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