Provide a brief description (1–2 sentences) of confidence intervals for contrasts.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Both simple and complex contrasts boil down to a single difference; either a difference between two means or the difference between one or more means with a second group of means. The confidence interval estimates a weighted difference between population means.
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