User968758 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
(quoting me, but alas! without attribution)
>"So if you take a good random
>sample and compute a 95% confidence interval, there is a 95% chance
>that the true population parameter is within the computed interval."
>
>Absolutely not true.
Care to explain?
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"My theory was a perfectly good one. The facts were misleading."
-- /The Lady Vanishes/ (1938)
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