Math
Confidence Interval Calculator
Compute a confidence interval for a sample mean using the z-distribution.
Inputs
Confidence Interval Calculator
Result
95% CI
[94.6323, 105.3677]
- Margin of error
- 5.3677
- Standard error
- 2.738613
- z-value
- 1.96
How it's calculated
CI = x̄ ± z·(s/√n).
x̄ = 100, s = 15, n = 30, 95% → 100 ± 1.96·(15/√30) ≈ 100 ± 5.37.
Common questions
Should I use z or t?
For large samples (n ≥ 30) or known population σ, z is standard. Small samples with unknown σ should use a t-interval.
What does 95% confidence mean?
If we repeated the sampling many times, ~95% of computed intervals would contain the true mean.
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