📘 Lecture — Advanced Confidence Interval Applications(高级置信区间应用)


Q1 — CI for Mean with Sample Size Planning(均值置信区间与样本量规划)

Question (EN): A company wants to estimate the average delivery time of its same-day shipping service. A pilot study with gives:

  • Sample mean: minutes
  • Sample standard deviation: minutes

Management requires:

  1. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean delivery time.
  2. Determine the minimum sample size needed to achieve a margin of error ≤ 3 minutes using the same variability level.




Q2 — Two-Sided CI for Proportion & Decision Making(比例区间与业务决策)

Question (EN): A marketing team tests whether at least 70% of customers are satisfied with a new mobile app. A sample of reveals:

  • Number of satisfied customers:
  • Sample proportion:

Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population proportion and determine: Can the team claim that at least 70% of customers are satisfied?





Q3 — CI Comparison Across Two Groups(比较两组置信区间)

Question (EN): A retailer compares average weekly spending between two customer groups:

GroupnMean ($)Std. Dev.
A5024060
B6021055

Construct the 95% confidence interval for each group and determine: Is there statistical evidence that Group A spends more than Group B?