Confidence Intervals.Construct the confidence interval.
Depths Data Set 16 in Appendix B lists the depths (km) of a sample of 50 earthquakes. Those 50 depths have a mean of 9.808 km and a standard deviation of 5.013 km. Construct a 98% confidence interval estimate of the mean of all such depths. Is the confidence interval affected by the fact that the data appear to be from a population that is not normally distributed? (Hint: If using Table A3 to find the critical value t ? / 2 , that table does not include 49 degrees of freedom, so use the closest value for 50 degrees of freedom.)
Estimates and Sample Sizes
Estimating a Population Mean