Re: Confidence Intervals

From: Aleks Jakulin (a_jakulin_at_@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/25/04


Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:01:23 +0200

Peter Michaux wrote:
> I've been reading old threads and it looks like people here
> generally prefer using confidence intervals to the other
> option of hypothesis testing. I can find a lot of information
> about hypothesis testing in text books but interpreting
> confidence intervals is harder info to find.

There is a neat paper my T. Minka on this topic:
Judging significance from error bars
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~minka/papers/minka-errorbars.pdf

-- 
mag. Aleks Jakulin
http://www.ailab.si/aleks/
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.


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