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Originally Posted by chromium  Hello all! I would really appreciate some help. I kind of used an equation that seemed to work.
If I have 9 observations, specifically 240,216,265,284,229,232,250,225,252, and need to find a 95% confidence interval for the mean  assuming that these are observations of a  distribution, can I do the following?:
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*I think  becomes 0.025 with 8 degrees of freedom and therefore  
(227.20, 260.13) | The theory looks OK, I haven't checked the fine detail (where the devil always is). A thread of relevance: constructing a confidence interval please help
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