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    May 16, 2008, 11:32 AM
    Statistics help!
    Consider a confidence interval. Explain whether the width of a newly calculated confidence interval would increase decrease or stay the same as the width of the original CI as a result of each of the following changes. How are and changes effected? List all changes. What components of a CI change under the following changes?

    a. sample size is doubled from 400-800
    b. population size is doubled from 5 million to 10 million
    c. confidence level is lowered from 95% to 90%
    d. significance level is lowered from 10% to 5%
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    May 16, 2008, 11:37 AM
    Here's a site that may help:
    Statistics Tutorial: Confidence Interval

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