Mathematics, 20.01.2020 17:31 alsiedlaw

In constructing a 95 percent confidence interval, if you increase n to 4n, the width of your confidence interval will (assuming other things remain the same) be:

about 25 percent of its former width.

about two times wider.

about 50 percent of its former width.

about four times wider.

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Answer from: raulramirez01

about 50 percent of its former width.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's assume that our parameter of interest is given by $\theta$ and in order to construct a confidence interval we can use the following formula:

$\hat \theta \pm ME(\hat \theta)$

Where $\hat \theta$ is an estimator for the parameter of interest and the margin of error is defined usually if the distribution for the parameter is normal as:

$ME = z_{\alpha} SE$

Where $z_{\alpha/2}$ is a quantile from the normal standard distribution that accumulates $\alpha/2$ of the area on each tail of the distribution. And represent the standard error for the parameter.

If our parameter of interest is the population proportion the standard of error is given by:

$SE= \frac{\hat p (1-\hat p)}{n}$

And if our parameter of interest is the sample mean the standard error is given by:

$SE = \frac{s}{\sqrt{n}}$

As we can see the standard error for both cases assuming that the other things remain the same are function of n the sample size and we can write this as:

SE = f(n)

And since the margin of error is a multiple of the standard error we have that ME = f(n)

Now if we find the width for a confidence interval we got this:

$Width = \hat \theta + ME(\hat \theta) -[\hat \theta -ME(\hat \theta)]$

$Width = 2 ME (\hat \theta)$

And we can express this as:

Width =2 f(n)

And we can define the function $f(n) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$ since as we can see the margin of error and the standard error are function of the inverse square root of n. So then we have this:

$Width_i= 2 \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$

The subscript i is in order to say that is with the sample size n

If we increase the sample size from n to 4n now our width is:

$Width_f = 2 \frac{1}{\sqrt{4n}} =2 \frac{1}{\sqrt{4}\sqrt{n}} =\frac{2}{2} \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} =\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} =\frac{1}{2} Width_i$

The subscript f is in order to say that is the width for the sample size 4n.

So then as we can see the width for the sample size of 4n is the half of the wisth for the width obtained with the sample size of n. So then the best option for this case is:

about 50 percent of its former width.

Answer from: Quest

step-by-step explanation:

1. practice, practice & more practice

2. review errors

3. master the key concepts

do not try to memorise the processes.

4. understand your doubts.

5. create a distraction free study environment

6. create a mathematical dictionary

7. apply maths to real world problems.

Answer from: Quest

14.3

step-by-step explanation:

add all the numbers together.

9 + 12 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 17 = 86

now, divide 86 by how many numbers we have: 6.

86 / 6 = 14.3

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