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Confidence interval for Mean

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:02 pm
by credmontgo
The confidence interval for Mean option in the Descriptives, under mean Dispersion produces what I think are population (z) confidence intervals, is this the intended outcome? The proper sample confidence interval we can get through the one sample t module, but this seems like an oversight of something great to add to descriptives

Re: Confidence interval for Mean

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 5:33 pm
by jwilloug
I agree that the proper confidence interval to include in Descriptives is a t-based confidence interval, not the z-based interval that is currently used. This, of course, becomes much more of an issue with small sample sizes, but I see no reason not to use the t-based interval in all cases.

Re: Confidence interval for Mean

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:48 pm
by credmontgo
Either way it should be better labeled as such. Students regularly use it by accident