SCENARIO 8-8
The president of a university would like to estimate the proportion of the student population
that owns a personal computer.In a sample of 500 students, 417 own a personal computer.
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 8-8, a confidence interval estimate of the population
proportion would only be valid if the distribution of the number of students who own a
personal computer is normal.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

A confidence interval for a population proportion can be valid if the sample size is large enough for the sampling distribution of the sample proportion to be approximately normal, according to the Central Limit Theorem, regardless of the distribution of the underlying population.

SCENARIO 8-8 the President of a University Would Like to Estimate the Estimate