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Example: Using a Pivot to Find a Confidence Interval for Normal Variance

A confidence interval estimator for the variance of a normal distribution is found using a pivotal quantity.

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Finding Interval Estimators

In this first lesson on interval estimation, we address three methods in the frequentist domain for finding interval estimators. The first is the inversion of a test statistic, the second is using…

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