Ch 5: First mention of 1.96
mine-cetinkaya-rundel opened this issue · 1 comments
mine-cetinkaya-rundel commented
How about adding a bit more info here. Instead of just
something like
While about 95\% of the data is within 2 standard deviations
in a normal distribution, it would be more precise to use
a value of 1.96 standard deviations as the area under the normal
curve within 1.96 standard deviations is closer to 0.95. This more
precise value is typically what is used to construct a 95\% confidence
interval.
OpenIntroOrg commented
Sounds good -- now updated.