Confidence interval of difference of means | Probability and Statistics | Khan Academy

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  • @megan2584
    @megan2584 2 роки тому +5

    Wish I could like this video twice! You are single handedly getting me through my Biostats module in my masters. Thank you!!!!

  • @mattjelani
    @mattjelani 2 роки тому +7

    This video helped a little but it's all over the place, definitely needs more organization.

  • @sumedhakappagantula9824
    @sumedhakappagantula9824 3 роки тому +17

    I owe Khan Academy 50% of my academic career

  • @1994sammahdi
    @1994sammahdi 2 роки тому +3

    Thought I'd just add a tidbit here since I find the terminology a bit confusing, and find some of the setup, especially the conclusion, unexplained or poorly explained (this results in some of the confusion in the comments). Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong.
    The intention of determining the confidence interval, is to see 1) Is there weight loss between the 2 diets and 2) How much? To that end, we need to determine, on average, what is the weight difference between the 2 groups (this is why you take the difference of the means). So now you have a new distribution, the distribution of the weight differences between group 1 and group 2. The next step, is to determine, within 95% confidence (i.e. 95% chance if I were to pick a random person between group 1 and group 2, they would have lost this amount of weight), how much weight is lost between group 1 and group 2. You do all the math, and you arrive with a confidence interval of 0.7 to 3.12lbs. This means if you were to pick 2 random people between group 1 and group 2, there is a 95% chance the weight lost between the 2 would be between 0.7lbs to 3.12lbs. Now to answer the 2 initial questions.
    Is there weight loss between the 2 diets? Yes, because even the lowest value (0.7lbs) is above 0lbs. Again, this is not an absolute 100% there is weight loss (maybe if you do 99.9999% your range will be -1lbs to 5lbs, in which case there are people who haven't lost weight), but you are 95% confident (at least that's how I look at it). As to how much? Again, not an absolute 100%, but I am 95% confident with the data given, it is between 0.7-3.12lbs.

  • @geraldh78
    @geraldh78 11 років тому +4

    Thank you for helping me through Biostats.

  • @opejojosephjedidiah
    @opejojosephjedidiah Рік тому

    All I can say may the good Lord bless more with wisdom 😊😊

  • @mikelcuvet1470
    @mikelcuvet1470 Рік тому

    Thank you for being the goat of explaining stuff my that my teachers cannot

  • @Ihatenicknames1
    @Ihatenicknames1 10 років тому +22

    Thank you for the great video Sal! :D
    I was thinking, maybe I am mistaken, but I don't believe that a 95% confidence interval means that there is a 95% chance that the confidence interval contains the population mean. Because if that was true, then, no matter how "far off" your sample mean was, there would always be a 95% chance that the confidence interval around it contains the population mean. This makes it seem as if the population mean is "moving around".
    A 95% confidence interval means that 95% of all the SAMPLES you take, will contain the population mean. Not that one sample has a 95% chance of containing the population mean.

    • @liverpooler1997
      @liverpooler1997 9 років тому

      +Ihatenicknames1 yeah I was wondering the same thing.

    • @clb8645
      @clb8645 7 років тому

      Yes...the probability that the true difference between the population means lies within the confidence interval calculated from the difference between his sample means is either 0% or 100%.

    • @非典型医学生研究院
      @非典型医学生研究院 7 років тому +8

      I believe the correct wording is "we are 95% confident that this interval overlaps the true population mean"

  • @nicolasscicolone2112
    @nicolasscicolone2112 5 років тому +6

    Question, since the sample standard deviations of both samples were used (as opposed to population standard deviations) why was the z-distribution (and thus z-table) used to estimate the critical value for the confidence interval? Wouldn't a t-distribution and t-table be more appropriate? Thanks!

    • @stevewang314
      @stevewang314 4 роки тому +6

      Because the sample size is 100, which is greater than 30, meaning that it would be appropriate to use normal distribution instead of t -distribution. Thus, we look up the z-table.

    • @thutomongale7637
      @thutomongale7637 Рік тому

      Exactly! I also felt like they are not correct and I used t-distibutuon and I found that the difference between population means is between 0.69 and 3.13

  • @sijialiu6240
    @sijialiu6240 Рік тому

    The expected value of sample variance is an unbiased estimation of population variance, thats why the s is used to "replace" the σ of the population X1

  • @purplepandasrock43
    @purplepandasrock43 3 роки тому +2

    its crazy how he talks so fast when he constantly stumbles over words and repeats himself and is always correcting himself. makes it hard to learn

  • @Faisal-wb1nu
    @Faisal-wb1nu Рік тому +1

    I want to ask.. should the difference between two means be always postive? I mean X1 should be the bigger one so the result is positive

  • @LaBar0ness
    @LaBar0ness 9 років тому +1

    Thank you SO much for all of your video's Sal!! They have helped me SO much!

  • @luthojilimane1262
    @luthojilimane1262 5 років тому +1

    Please include the formulas in your calculations

  • @dfsfklsj
    @dfsfklsj 12 років тому +3

    Hi khan, I think you might have a mistake here... You assumed the sample means are the true means of the population. Isn't it better if you can calculate a 95% confidence interval of the distribution of sample means of x1 and the control, and then say that the mean of their differences is 95%*95% between the differences of the calculated condifence intervals?

  • @sujeongmoon7761
    @sujeongmoon7761 2 роки тому

    dont we need to calculate pooled variance?

  • @chopper84a
    @chopper84a 11 років тому +4

    I don't get the intuition behind why amalgamating the two sample means tells us anything?

  • @CCbean63
    @CCbean63 7 років тому +6

    I love your video's, I t is annoying though that you repeat everything you say as soon as you say it.

    • @keshavbansal5148
      @keshavbansal5148 3 роки тому +1

      Sometimes it helps getting the point across some dumb students like myself. :-( . But okay.

  • @rohitashvaraj8399
    @rohitashvaraj8399 4 роки тому

    isn't Z score = ( X - Mean)/ std dev .. so at 06:20 it should be 1.96* std dev + mean , right ??

    • @14december89
      @14december89 4 роки тому +1

      You are right, but at 06:20 he was just calculating how many standard deviations the (X-mean) is,
      not until 13:20 then he calculated the X (the actual mean) which are within the (1.96* std dev + mean) with 95% confidence interval

    • @keshavbansal5148
      @keshavbansal5148 3 роки тому

      We just have the mean of the sample distributions, and not the actual mean of the population. x1(bar)-x2(bar) doesn't actually represent the population mean value. Which is why we cannot exactly use the formula you mentioned. Sal is trying to find the CI for the actual mean around the calculated sample mean.

  • @DrAKMAnisurRahman
    @DrAKMAnisurRahman Рік тому

    Is it 1.96* sd or 1.96*SE (standard error?)

  • @leetodvi
    @leetodvi 13 років тому

    thank you for all !!!!!!!!!

  • @Nina-kv4vn
    @Nina-kv4vn 8 років тому

    Is this course, Probability and Statistics, available in PDF, Sal?

    • @fly869
      @fly869 8 років тому

      Nina 1 ppp

  • @nO_d3N1AL
    @nO_d3N1AL 12 років тому

    very explicit. Thanks

  • @fraidym7793
    @fraidym7793 4 роки тому

    How come the true mean is x1-x2 and not x1+x2 divided by 2?? Thanks Sal for the video(s)

  • @kallievartt8070
    @kallievartt8070 4 роки тому +1

    would the difference of the sample means, 1.91, be the point estimate?

  • @Oleander_Sky
    @Oleander_Sky 2 роки тому

    What if x bar - x bar = 0???

  • @desrucca
    @desrucca 2 роки тому +1

    I thought 95% is mean ± 2*stdev ??

  • @1rachellund
    @1rachellund 13 років тому

    please - please- please number these :) thanks for the help cheers

  • @vivienj6831
    @vivienj6831 7 років тому +3

    I'm confused.... what makes this a z test rather than a t test?

    • @suuup4711
      @suuup4711 7 років тому +3

      if a sample size is 30 or more we use z, if not we use t.

    • @vivienj6831
      @vivienj6831 7 років тому

      Okay thank you do much!

    • @tricky92x
      @tricky92x 7 років тому +1

      Only if you are fairly certain that the samples are from a normally distributed population. If you look, 100 degrees of freedom on the Student's t table for a 95% confidence interval is still significantly off from the relative Z score.

  • @RuthSarona
    @RuthSarona Рік тому +1

    Idk, but the way he narrates is repetitive and confusing because of so much repetition. It's so hard to understand with the way it is explained.

  • @shekarsubramanian9562
    @shekarsubramanian9562 6 років тому +2

    But why did we choose 95% confidence interval... why not 99% or some other value??

    • @ericaheng3905
      @ericaheng3905 4 роки тому

      Because we are taking samples the closest percentage we can take us 95% in this subject. I think thats wat my lecturer said 🤣

    • @ryanwong7426
      @ryanwong7426 3 роки тому +2

      you can choose whatever confidence interval u want to, depending on how confident you want to be in your results

  • @PerpetualTiredness
    @PerpetualTiredness 12 років тому

    What does that 95% mean in plain English?

    • @gamerdio2503
      @gamerdio2503 5 років тому +1

      95% of samples contain the mean in the interval

  • @BarbaraGonzalez-l4v
    @BarbaraGonzalez-l4v 2 місяці тому

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