Suppose we want to know what proportion p of students in a large university have studied calculus in high school. At least how many students should we include in a sample if we want to estimate p with an error bound of 0.03 (at most) with 95% confidence ?

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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.