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CONFIDENCE

Description: Returns the confidence bound for a population mean. The confidence interval is a range of values. Your sample mean, , is at the center of this range and the range is  ± CONFIDENCE. For example, if is the sample mean of delivery times for products ordered through the mail,   ± CONFIDENCE is a range of population means. For any population mean, µ0, in this range, the probability of obtaining a sample mean further from µ0 than is greater than alpha; for any population mean, µ0, not in this range, the probability of obtaining a sample mean further from µ0 than is less than alpha. In other words, assume that we use , Standard_dev, and size to construct a two-tailed test at significance level alpha of the hypothesis that the population mean is µ0. Then we will not reject that hypothesis if µ0 is in the confidence interval and will reject that hypothesis if µ0 is not in the confidence interval. The confidence interval does not allow us to infer that there is probability 1 - alpha that our next package will take a delivery time that is in the confidence interval.

Syntax: CONFIDENCE(Alpha, Standard_dev, Size)

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Example:

 

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