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Confidence Intervals for Population Variance
8. Sampling Distributions & Confidence Intervals: Proportion / Confidence Intervals for Population Variance / Problem 5
Problem 5

A psychologist measures reaction times (in seconds) for a simple cognitive task in a sample of n=50n=50 participants. The sample standard deviation of reaction times is s=0.15s=0.15 s. Assuming reaction times are (approximately) normally distributed, construct a 95%95\% confidence interval (up to two decimal places) for the true population standard deviation σ\(\sigma\).