If you use this, you do not give an exact estimate of the population parameter

Instead the range is from a little below and a little above your best estimate of the population parameter based on statistics about the sampling error from your random sample and how certain you want to be of an answer.
A) confidence interval
B) deviant case sampling
C) sampling distribution
D) sampling ratio
E) probability proportionate to size (PPS)


A

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