AppliedMultiple choice
You compute a confidence interval of for a mean. Which reading is correct?
- AThere is a 95% probability the true mean lies between 2 and 8
- B95% of intervals built this way would contain the true mean
- C95% of the data lie between 2 and 8
- DThe sample mean has a 95% chance of being 5
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