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Re: st: question of ci
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: question of ci
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Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:56:38 -0400
The Statalist FAQ suggest that you "do your homework", meaning in part: try to find the answer before posting. You will find the correct interpretation of confidence intervals (yours is incorrect) in any elementary text or by Googling, e.g. "introduction confidence limits".
Steve
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On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:38 AM, tashi lama wrote:
Hello,
I have a question, rather conceptual and might really look silly. But I am trying to understand the basics. Here is my dataset
var1
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total var1
| Total Std. Err. [95% Conf. Interval]
-------------+------------------------------------------------
var1 | 6 1.732051 -1.452413 13.45241
1. As I understand, CI gives us the confidence that the true value resembles the estimate in our test. In this dataset, what does CI mean? In other words, what is the interval saying about the datset. Also, is it assuming that there is a normal distribution?
Thanx as always,
Tashi
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