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Liu, Xiaofeng Steven; Loudermilk, Brandon; Simpson, Thomas – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2014
Sample size can be chosen to achieve a specified width in a confidence interval. The probability of obtaining a narrow width given that the confidence interval includes the population parameter is defined as the power of the confidence interval, a concept unfamiliar to many practitioners. This article shows how to utilize the Statistical Analysis…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Statistical Analysis, Confidence Testing, Intervals
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Arzumanyan, George; Halcoussis, Dennis; Phillips, G. Michael – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
This paper presents the Agresti & Coull "Adjusted Wald" method for computing confidence intervals and margins of error for common proportion estimates. The presented method is easily implementable by business students and practitioners and provides more accurate estimates of proportions particularly in extreme samples and small…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Error of Measurement, Error Patterns, Intervals
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Psychological Methods, 2008
Reports an error in "Confidence intervals for gamma-family measures of ordinal association" by Carol M. Woods (Psychological Methods, 2007[Jun], Vol 12[2], 185-204). The note corrects simulation results presented in the article concerning the performance of confidence intervals (CIs) for Spearman's r-sub(s). An error in the author's C++ code…
Descriptors: Intervals, Computation, Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques