Which of the following statements is incorrect a the greater the certainty of being right the less precision of prediction be art are equal to the probability divided by one minus the probability of the same number see typically statics like to be right 95% of the time which gives them a 95% confidence interval or D the smaller the predicted range of main value the more certain we can be that a true man will be included
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