The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 20 - Inference about a Population Mean - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 458: 20.3b

Answer

$t^*=2.485$.

Work Step by Step

The critical value of a $98\%$ confidence interval based on the $t(25)$ distribution is given in the row $df=25$ and in the column with $c=98\%$. Thus $t^*=2.485$.
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