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Investigating sampling and confidence intervals

Examine techniques that allow us to draw reasonable conclusions about a population from a sample. Demonstrate how to compute confidence intervals.

• Part 1 — Variations in samples
  • Student worksheet
    • Handout 1: Drawing histograms of samples
    • Handout 2: Different numbers of samples
    • Appendix: Excel spreadsheet of 100 samples (XLS, 40 kb)
  • Teacher's notes
• Part 2 — Confidence intervals
  • Student worksheet
  • Teacher's notes