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Confidence Interval [SpreadSheet Probem]

Trying to find the right formulation to work out the confidence interval.

The data set is on the set and my solution for a 99% confidence interval for profits given the data is [£4,106.92. £19,351.08]

My question is do I input alpha as 0.05 as oppose to 0.1 on an excel spreadsheet to find a 99 confidence interval.



Formula for confidence range is in the input formula box above, to see what cells were used.
Original post by Abdul-Karim
Trying to find the right formulation to work out the confidence interval.

The data set is on the set and my solution for a 99% confidence interval for profits given the data is [£4,106.92. £19,351.08]

My question is do I input alpha as 0.05 as oppose to 0.1 on an excel spreadsheet to find a 99 confidence interval.



Formula for confidence range is in the input formula box above, to see what cells were used.


You should use alpha = 0.01 for a 99% confidence interval.

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