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?

Slides and Code

Slides

Qmd file to download