Confidence Intervals

This chapter deals with the determination of confidence intervals for various parameters and for adjustment models. First, the basics of confidence intervals are presented in an introductory chapter (cf. Sect. 9.1). Subsequently, procedures for the determination of confidence intervals of the parameters mean and dispersion in the case of a normally distributed population are presented (Sect. 9.2) as well as the confidence interval for a proportion value in the case of a binomially distributed population (Sect. 9.3). Section 9.4 focuses on the determination of confidence intervals for parameters of the Weibull distribution model. Section 9.5 concludes with the procedure for determining the confidence interval for an adjustment function or adjusted distribution model.