Quantitative Literacy: Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis Testing, and Linear Regression

Presenter: Erica Ann Metheney, Statistician and Head of GLD Data.

After the session, participants will be able to: 

• Describe the purpose and general structure of a confidence interval
• Interpret confidence intervals
• Identify the various items that impact the width of a confidence interval
• Describe the philosophical logic of hypothesis testing
• Interpret output from a hypothesis test