Introductory Statistical Procedures with SPSS

Author(s): Muhammad Arslan Nasir, Hassan S. Bakouch and Farrukh Jamal

DOI: 10.2174/9789815039023122010009

Estimation and Inference

Pp: 131-147 (17)

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Introductory Statistical Procedures with SPSS

Estimation and Inference

Author(s): Muhammad Arslan Nasir, Hassan S. Bakouch and Farrukh Jamal

Pp: 131-147 (17)

DOI: 10.2174/9789815039023122010009

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

This chapter gives the methods and tools for the estimation of parameters, which includes the point estimation and interval estimation. The confidence interval includes the construction of 100(1−α)% interval limits for, single population(one sample) mean µ, the difference between two population means (independent sample) µ1 − µ2 for equal and unequal variances, the confidence interval for paired samples(related samples). The procedures to perform these methods on SPSS are given.


Keywords: Point estimation, Interval estimation, One sample t-test, Independent sample t-test, Paired sample t-test.

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