Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Coming back to the CI, I think you are saying that once a particular : confidence interval is selected, either it definitely contains the : true population parameter or it definitely does not. But once the : CI is selected it is no longer meaningful to talk about the : probability that it contains the population parameter. We can say, : "Well, the process by which we found this CI does bracket the mean : 95 times out of 100", but we can not make a probabilistic statement : about this particular confidence interval.
: Is that more or less it? Yes. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
