A colleague is a devotee of confidence intervals. To him, the CI have the magical property that they are immune to the multiple comparison problem– in other words, he feels its OK to look at a bunch of 95% CI and focus on the ones that appear to exc…
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Example 9.19: Demonstrating the central limit theorem
A colleague recently asked “why should the average get closer to the mean when we increase the sample size?” We should interpret this question as asking why the standard error of the mean gets smaller as n increases. The central limit theorem shows t…