Applied statistics (GBE)

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Estimation

Literature

[A] chapter 5, except section 5.5.

Lecture material

This lecture as: slideshow (html), Rmarkdown (Rmd), notes (pdf).

The entire module: notes (pdf).

Answers to exercises in the book

Exercises

  1. Solve Agresti exercise 5.7, 5.17, 5.19 (use RStudio), 5.31, 5.37 and 5.41 (hint: which standard deviation is necessary for the normal distribution with mean 9 to cover the interval 0-18 with probability 99.7%?)

  2. Confidence intervals:

    Explore this interactive app about confidence intervals.
    Select some settings and press “Resample” a few times. Try the different settings such as changing the sample size and confidence level. What is the difference between using 90% and 99%?

  3. Go through any Rmarkdown exercises of the previous two lectures that you did not yet finish.