Find the 95% confidence interval for the percentage of leaky diapers in Example 4.4.4 assuming 400 diapers were tested and 20% were leaky. Note that it is 8 percentage points long.

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.