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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval Includes a worked out example for the confidence interval of the mean of a distribution. In general, confidence intervals are calculated from the sampling distribution of a statistic. If "n" independent random variables are summed (as in the calculation of a mean), then their sampling distribution will be the t distribution with n-1 degrees of freedom.
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How hypothesis testing and the use of confidence intervals are the same?
They are related but they are NOT the same.
What is meant by the term confidence intervals?
Confidence intervals represent a specific probability that the "true" mean of a data set falls within a given range. The given range is based off of the experimental mean.
What are the 3 confidence intervals?
There are an infinite number of confidence intervals; different disciplines and different circumstances will determine which is used. Common ones are 50% (is the event likely?), 75%, 90%, 95%, 99%, 99.5%, 99.9%, 99.99% etc.
Why do you use confidence intervals?
Statistical estimates cannot be exact: there is a degree of uncertainty associated with any statistical estimate. A confidence interval is a range such that the estimated value belongs to the confidence interval with the stated probability.
How do you calculate confidence interval?
Confidence intervals may be calculated for any statistics, but the most common statistics for which CI's are computed are mean, proportion and standard deviation. I have include a link, which contains a worked out example for the confidence interval of a mean.
