Chapter 12: Q.8 (page 760)
Refer to Exercise 6.
(a) Interpret the value of SEb in context.
(b) Find the critical value for a 99% confidence interval for the slope of the true regression line. Then calculate the confidence interval. Show your work.
(c) Interpret the interval from part (b) in context.
(d) Explain the meaning of “99% confident” in context .
Short Answer
(a)
(b) The confidence interval is
(c) we have a percent confidence level that the true slope of the population regression line is between
(d) "percent confident" means that the confidence interval will contain the true value of the population parameter in percent of all possible samples.