In: Statistics and Probability
A laboratory tested twelve chicken eggs and found that the mean
amount of cholesterol was 247 milligrams with s = 16.8 milligrams.
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean cholesterol
content of all such eggs.
The formula for constructing
confidence interval for the true population mean,
is given by
Given:
sample size,
sample mean,
sample standard deviation,
For 95% confidence,
, then the critical value is,
Calculation for
95% confidence interval for
So the 95% confidence interval for the true mean cholesterol
content in all such eggs is calculated as
.
i.e.,