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== [[SOCR_Courses_2012_2013_Stat13_1 | Stats 13.1]] - Laboratory Activity 5: Confidence Interval Activity==

This is an activity to explore the confidence intervals for the population mean when the standard deviation is known.

===Description===
You can access the applet for the confidence intervals experiment at [http://www.socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Experiments.html SOCR Experiments]. Use the scroll down button to find the [http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/exp/Confidence_Interval_Experiment.html Confidence Interval Experiment].

The confidence interval for the population mean \(\mu\) when \( \sigma \) is known is given by (when n>30):
\(
\bar x - z_{\frac{\alpha}{2}} \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}} \le \mu \le \bar x + z_{\frac{\alpha}{2}} \frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}
\)
where \(z_{\frac{\alpha}{2}}\) is the value of \(z\) such that the area to its left (or right) is \(\frac{\alpha}{2}\). For example if we choose a \(95 \% \) confidence level then \(1-\alpha=0.95\) or \(\alpha=0.05\) and therefore \(\frac{\alpha}{2}=0.025\) which gives \(z_{\frac{\alpha}{2}}=1.96\). The sample mean \(\bar x\) is the mean of the sample of size \(n\), and \(\sigma \) is the standard deviation. In this lab we will generate many confidence intervals based on different sample sizes. The samples in this lab are always selected from the standard normal distribution \(N(0,1)\). Therefore we know that the mean is \(\mu=0\), and the standard deviation \(\sigma=1\). Let's pretend that \(\mu\) is unknown and that only \(\sigma\) is known. We will select many samples each one of size \(n\) and use it to construct a confidence interval for the population mean.

===Exercise 1===
Using the scroll down button select "Number of Experiments = 100". Select sample size \(n=20\), and choose number of intervals 200. It means: You will select 200 samples and with each sample you will obtain a confidence interval. You will do this 100 times. Take a snapshot and answer the following questions.

# What do the numbers -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 represent?
# What do the blue lines represent?
# How is the confidence interval represented?
# What does the green dot represent?
# How many intervals (out of the 200) do you ''expect'' to miss the population mean \(\mu=0\)? How many ''did'' when you ran it (in the final experiment)?
# Write down the formula on which these confidence intervals are based.

===Exercise 2===
# Reset and repeat Exercise 1, answering questions 5 and 6, with \(\alpha=0.01\). Will the intervals be larger, smaller, or stay the same compared to that of Exercise 1?
# Reset and repeat Exercise 1, answering questions 5 and 6, with sample size now \(n=80\) and \(\alpha=0.01\). Will the intervals be larger, smaller, or stay the same compared to that of Exercise 1?
# Reset and repeat Exercise 1, answering questions 5 and 6, with sample size \(n=80\) and \(\alpha=1.0E-4\) (this is \(10^{-4}\)). Will the intervals be larger, smaller, or stay the same compared to that of Exercise 1? Take a snapshot.
# What should happen to the lengths of the intervals as \(\alpha\) gets larger? What about as \(n\) gets larger?

Below you can see a snapshot of the run of 100 intervals with \( n=36, \ \alpha=0.05 \).

<center>[[Image: SOCR_Activities_Christou_christou_confint.jpg|600px]]</center>

===See also===
* [[SOCR_EduMaterials_Activities_General_CI_Experiment | General Confidence Interval Activity]] and the [http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/exp/Confidence_Interval_Experiment_General.html General Confidence Interval Applet].

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* SOCR Home page: http://www.socr.ucla.edu

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 ===Description===
-You can access the applet for the confidence intervals experiment at [http://www.socr.ucla.edu/htmls/SOCR_Experiments.html SOCR Experiments].  Use the scroll down button to find the [http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/exp/Confidence_Interval_Experiment.html Confidence Interval Experiment].
+You can access the applet for the confidence intervals experiment at [http://socr.umich.edu/html/exp/ SOCR Experiments].  Use the scroll down button to find the [http://socr.ucla.edu/htmls/exp/Confidence_Interval_Experiment.html Confidence Interval Experiment].
 The confidence interval for the population mean \(\mu\) when \( \sigma \) is known is given by (when n>30):

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