In: Statistics and Probability
When constructing confidence intervals for population means, an analyst must never use personal judgement to estimate a preliminary value of the population standard deviation when attempting to select a sample size for desired margin of error. Calculations must be used for the preliminary value estimate.
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The sample size is computed from the margin of error as:
A prior estimate of the population standard deviation is used to get the sample size from the above formula instead of using any personal judgement. Otherwise we may get a less conservative sample size or very high conservative sample size for the test.