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A random sample of 85 students in Chicago city high schools take a course designed to improve SAT scores. Based on these students, a 90% confidence interval for the mean improvement in SAT scores from this course for all Chicago city high school students is computed as (72.3, 91.4) points. The correct interpretation of this interval is that ______
II. 90% of the students in the population should have their scores improved by between 72.3 and 91.4.
I. 90% of the students in the sample had their scores improved by between 72.3 and 91.4 points.
II. 90% of the students in the population should have their scores improved by between 72.3 and 91.4.
User Contributed Comments 8
| User | Comment |
|---|---|
| chamad | what's SAT score? SAT? |
| JenLynn | if i remember correctly it stands for scholastic aptitude test.... its a standardized exam that is taken by high school students in the US. Many US colleges require this test score as part of the college application. Although colleges consider many factors.... having a high SAT score helps get accepted to a better college |
| steved333 | Doesn't really matter. The point is merely that a 90% confidence interval just means that you can be 90% sure that your parameter value will lie between the low and high end of the interval. SAT is just an example of how that works, that's all. |
| tschorsch | it is the average attention span (in seconds) of a student in the Chicago Public School System |
| azramirza | Is this correct? There is 90% confidence that the population mean of improving SAT scored is 72.3 to 91.4? |
| Kaloyan | It means that any student enrolled in this program has "guaranteed improvement" in SAT score ranging between 72.3 and 91.4 and you can be 90 % sure that you can say this is the fact. Note there is a 10% possibility that you will have students who score outside this range, either exceeding or going lower than the range. |
| johntan1979 | NOTE: 90% confidence interval DOES NOT mean 90% of the population As explained by AnalystNotes above, the correct interpretation is "We are 90% confident that the true value of the parameter being estimated is within our confidence interval." |
| Teeto | we are 90% sure that mean improvement of the SAT score for all the students who sat at the exam is between 72.3 and 91.4 point |
I used your notes and passed ... highly recommended!
Lauren
Learning Outcome Statements
identify and describe desirable properties of an estimator;
contrast a point estimate and a confidence interval estimate of a population parameter;
CFA® 2024 Level I Curriculum, Volume 1, Module 5.