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How do I get a confidence interval of 90% from 1245(0.42)(1-0.42))=279. How do I calculate to get confidence interval?

 Jun 14, 2015

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This looks like you've supplied the variance of a binomial distribution with n = 1245 trials and probability of success, p = 0.42.

 

Using the Wald method (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution ) the 90% confidence interval is obtained from:

 

p ± 1.645*√(p*(p-1)/n)

 

You can fill in the numbers.

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 Jun 15, 2015
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Best Answer

This looks like you've supplied the variance of a binomial distribution with n = 1245 trials and probability of success, p = 0.42.

 

Using the Wald method (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution ) the 90% confidence interval is obtained from:

 

p ± 1.645*√(p*(p-1)/n)

 

You can fill in the numbers.

.

Alan Jun 15, 2015

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