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Question On standard pf error & Sample means/population means!?

A GSS asked, "what do you think is the ideal number of children's for family to have? For the 555 males in the sample, the mean was 2.89 and the standard deviation was 1.77            

How do I find the standard error of the sample mean?        

And how do I Find the 95% confidence interval for the population mean?        

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    Lv 7
    1 year ago

    A: Standard error of the sample is given approximately as  ..... 

    Standard deviation sample divided by the square root of number of samples 

    https://errorcodespro.com/how-to-calculate-standar...

     

    Standard error = SD/√(n) = 1.77/√(555) = 0.0751 

     

    B: Confidence interval for sample population mean 

    The mean of a sample may not coincide exactly with the mean of a huge population. A percentage confidence interval is a range of values that you can be certain to that percentage that the sample mean contains the true mean of the population. When we calculate a 95% confidence interval for the population mean it is not the same as a range of the full population that contains 95% of the values. The standard error from A can be regarded as the new standard deviation of the sampling distribution.(Helpful simple example within this link)  

    http://onlinestatbook.com/2/estimation/mean.html 

    To calculate the confidence interval we use the fact that 95% of the area of the sample distribution, (assumed normal), is within 1.96 of the new standard deviations either side of the mean. So the calculations of the interval are 

    2.89 – 1.96*0.0751 = 2.4427 

    2.89 + 1.96*0.0751 = 2.7373 which you could write as 

    2.89 ± 0.1472 

    Males sampled think that ideal number of children is between 2.44 and 2.74 

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