Re: Adumbo still can't answer simple question

On May 27, 2:47 pm, John Smith <jsmith_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Luis:  here is a sample, give me the confidence inteval for this sample

4.5 7.6 8.4 3.3 4.2 9.2 1.9 10.0

Can't do it without reference to a parameter, can you?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

John

Normally I would not defend Afonso, but this is getting out of hand
and wasting enormous quantities of bandwidth.

1) You are wilfully misinterpreting what he meant. It is true that
each sample generates a confidence interval (after all, it is the
ensemble of these intervals that defines the confidence level), even
though the interval itself concerns a parameter.

2) He is correct that one can use sampling in the way that he suggests
to perform tests.

illywhacker;
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