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    Statistical Analysis Question: Confidence Intervals

    @ Denial That is what I ended up doing. Setting a t-CI specifically for the points around 3sigma from the sample mean.
  2. jpenmech

    Statistical Analysis Question: Confidence Intervals

    Thanks, but I've already been through those articles and much Googling. The terminology used for statistics is a bit confusing. A confidence interval or confidence bounds are not for individual data points of a sample. The CI is for a samples mean only and says nothing with regard to the...
  3. jpenmech

    Statistical Analysis Question: Confidence Intervals

    Yeah that makes sense. Something I'm realizing the more I read about CI, is they don't bound individual data points of a sample, but rather bound the mean of a sample. So I want to bound data points of any sample.
  4. jpenmech

    Statistical Analysis Question: Confidence Intervals

    Hi all, I have 26 data points I'd like to form a confidence interval around (i.e. points to bound the sample data and possibly the population data). I can use a t-distribution type: mean +/- [sample/root(# data points)]*t_%5, but it doesn't fully capture the data points. OR I can use: mean...
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