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Confidence Interval for Mean:Marriage rate of Harvard alumni

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1. The Harvard class of 1957 had a reunion attended by 36. Among them, they discovered that they had been married an average of 2.6 times. From the Harvard Alumni Register, the dean learned that the standard deviation for alumni was 0.3 marriages. Help the dean construct a 99% confidence interval for the marriage rate for Harvard alumni.

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The solution provides step by step method for the calculation of confidence interval for population mean. Formula for the calculation and Interpretations of the results are also included. Interactive excel sheet is included. The user can edit the inputs and obtain the complete results for a new set of data.

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1. The Harvard class of 1957 had a reunion attended by 36. Among them, they discovered that they had been married an average of 2.6 times. From the Harvard Alumni Register, the dean ...

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