Confidence Intervals for the Mean

t Distribution

Answers

  1. A t distribution has more scores in its tails and fewer in the center than a normal distribution, so it is leptokurtic. Also, a t distribution with 20 degrees of freedom has 95% of its distribution within 2.086 standard deviations of its mean.

  2. As the degrees of freedom increase, the t distribution looks more and more like a normal distribution.

  3. Use the "Find t for a confidence interval" calculator for a 90% confidence interval and you will get 1.753.

  4. Use the "t distribution" calculator and enter 10 for df and 2 for t. You will see that the probability of getting something greater than 2 SDs from the mean is .0734, so the probability of getting something less than 2 SDs from the mean is 1 - .0734 = .9266. 

  5. There is a population of test scores with an unknown standard deviation. You sample 21 scores from this population, and you calculate the mean and standard deviation. You get a value for the mean that is 1.5 standard errors greater than what you think is the population mean. What is the probability that you would get a value 1.5 standard deviations or more from the mean in this t distribution? Answer: 0.148 or 14.8%

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