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Introduction to the New Statistics, 2nd Edition
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Introduction to the New Statistics, 2nd Edition

by Geoff Cumming, Robert Calin-Jageman
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
610 pages
24h 12m
English
Routledge
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5 Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes

DOI: 10.4324/9781032689470-5

This is the chapter in which a trumpet fanfare announces a more detailed discussion of CIs. At one level, most people have a reasonable idea what a CI tells us, as we discussed in Chapter 1. However, at a deeper level CIs are tricky, and it’s fascinating as well as important to try to understand them well. In this chapter I discuss four ways to think about and interpret CIs. Here’s the agenda:

  • Errors of estimation and MoE
  • Trumpets for CIs, and the dance of the CIs
  • The t distribution
  • An interlude on randomness
  • Effect sizes
  • Four ways to think about and interpret CIs

These are all ideas at the heart of estimation, and, therefore, at the heart of this book. We’ll see more ...

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