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What happens to the width of the confidence interval when you are unable to get a large sample size?
The width of the confidence interval increases.
What happens to the width of the confidence interval if you decrease the confidence level?
The width reduces.
How do you produce a new confidence interval with a larger width?
Increase your percent confidence to provide an increased width.
What would happen to the width of the confidence interval if the level of confidence is lowered from 95 percent to 90 percent?
decrease
Is it true that the wider the confidence interval the less precise is the estimate?
All things being equal, a wider confidence interval (CI) implies a higher confidence. The higher confidence you want, the wider the CI gets. The lower confidence you want, the narrower the CI gets The point estimate will be the same, just the margin of error value changes based on the confidence you want. The formula for the CI is your point estimate +/- E or margin of error. The "E" formula contains a value for the confidence and the higher the confidence, the larger the value hence the wider the spread. In talking about the width of the CI, it is not correct to say more or less precise. You would state something like I am 95% confident that the CI contains the true value of the mean.
The width of a confidence interval is equal to twice the value of the margin of error?
No. The width of the confidence interval depends on the confidence level. The width of the confidence interval increases as the degree of confidence demanded from the statistical test increases.
What happens to the width of the confidence interval when you are unable to get a large sample size?
The width of the confidence interval increases.
What happens to the width of the confidence interval if you decrease the confidence level?
The width reduces.
How do you produce a new confidence interval with a larger width?
Increase your percent confidence to provide an increased width.
What Happens To The Width Of The Confidence Interval If You Decrease The Confidence Level Decrease The Sample Size or Decrease the margin of error?
The width of the confidence interval willdecrease if you decrease the confidence level,increase if you decrease the sample sizeincrease if you decrease the margin of error.
What happens to width of interval if you decrease the sample size?
It will decrease too. * * * * * If it is the confidence interval it will NOT decrease, but will increase.
Effect on the width of the confidence interval when sample size is increased?
In general, the confidence interval (CI) is reduced as the sample size is increased. See related link.
What would happen to the width of the confidence interval if the level of confidence is lowered from 95 percent to 90 percent?
decrease
What happens to the confidence interval as the standard deviation of a distribution increases?
The standard deviation is used in the numerator of the margin of error calculation. As the standard deviation increases, the margin of error increases; therefore the confidence interval width increases. So, the confidence interval gets wider.
What effect increasing only the population standard deviation will have on the width of the confidence interval?
It will make it wider.
What will happen to the width of a confidence interval if the sample size is doubled from 100 to 200?
It will decrease.It will decrease
When comparing the 95 percent confidence and prediction intervals for a given regression analysis what is the relation between confidence and prediction interval?
Confidence interval considers the entire data series to fix the band width with mean and standard deviation considers the present data where as prediction interval is for independent value and for future values.
