Re: Confidence Limit

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:38:03 -0000, "Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ snip, much]

> 
> I have no clue how to get it - I tried to get it via the Inverse General
> Normal table but I couldn't match the value that was supplied to me.
> 
> e.g. Confidence Level 0.90 then z = 1.645
> 

If that's what was supplied to you....

If you were asked for the lower side of 90%-confidence limits, 
that would be it.  

But there can be a one-sided limit.  I thought I could 
read that original question as deserving the answer 1.28 .

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