Medical Statistics at a Glance
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Chapter 11, Question 1.
Confidence interval for a proportion


Select all of the following statements which you believe to be true. The 95% confidence interval for a proportion:

Cannot be calculated if the sample size is small.
Is the interval within which 95% of sample proportions would lie if we were to take repeated samples of a given size from the population.
Is the interval within which we expect the population proportion to lie with 95% certainty.
Is wider than the 99% confidence interval for the proportion.
Is calculated as the sample proportion ± standard error of the proportion.