9.12: Bootstrap and Confidence Intervals
Learning Objectives
By the end of the class, students should be able to:
Describe the purpose of confidence intervals
Generate a bootstrap confidence interval
Generate a CLT-based confidence interval for the sample mean
Class prep
Introduction to Modern Statistics chapter 12 (specifically, up to 12.4)
By the end of the reading, you should be able to answer the following questions:
What is bootstrapping and why do we use it?
What information does a confidence interval provide?