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@article{citeulike:4914917, abstract = {Learning about statistics is a lot like learning about science: the learning is more meaningful if you can actively explore. This third installment of Explorations in Statistics investigates confidence intervals. A confidence interval is a range that we expect, with some level of confidence, to include the true value of a population parameter such as the mean. A confidence interval provides the same statistical information as the P value from a hypothesis test, but it circumvents the drawbacks of that hypothesis test. Even more important, a confidence interval focuses our attention on the scientific importance of some experimental result.}, author = {Curran-Everett, Douglas}, citeulike-article-id = {4914917}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advan.00006.2009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/2/87#R11}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19509392}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19509392}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1152/advan.00006.2009}, issn = {1522-1229}, journal = {Advances in physiology education}, keywords = {confidence, interval, statistics}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {87--90}, posted-at = {2009-06-30 17:37:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Explorations in statistics: confidence intervals.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advan.00006.2009}, volume = {33}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4914917 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4914917 N2 - Learning about statistics is a lot like learning about science: the learning is more meaningful if you can actively explore. This third installment of Explorations in Statistics investigates confidence intervals. A confidence interval is a range that we expect, with some level of confidence, to include the true value of a population parameter such as the mean. A confidence interval provides the same statistical information as the P value from a hypothesis test, but it circumvents the drawbacks of that hypothesis test. Even more important, a confidence interval focuses our attention on the scientific importance of some experimental result. IS - 2 JF - Advances in physiology education SN - 1522-1229 EP - 90 TI - Explorations in statistics: confidence intervals. VL - 33 SP - 87 KW - confidence KW - interval KW - statistics AU - Curran-Everett, Douglas PY - 2009/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advan.00006.2009 ER -