Stat 2000, Section 001, Homework Assignment 13 (Due 4/26/2000 in class)

• 0) Reading: Section 6.1, 6.2
  
  
• 1) Please work on the following textbook questions in Moore/McCabe:
  
  
  • a) Exercise 6.2, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.10, 6.19, 6.23 (2 Points each)
    
    
  • b) Exercise 6.26, 6.29, 6.34 (1 Point each)
    
    
  • c) Exercise 6.37, 6.41, 6.49 (2 Points each)
    
    
• 2) Work with the Confidence Intervals applet at
  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/conf_interval/index.html
  
  Experiment with the applet and explain in 2 or 3 sentences what it does. Then, explain to someone without any knowledge in statistics what a confidence interval is, using your own words. (2 Points)
  
  If you like this applet and also the Normal Approximation to Binomial applet from Assignment 12, then you can experiment with many similar applets that can be accessed through the following Web page:
  http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html