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Friday, December 21, 2012

Q: The probability of success in each of a series of independent trials is constant. How can a 95% confidence interval for this proportion be obtained?

This is called the "binomial confidence interval," and there are a few solutions. Wikipedia discusses this here: Binomial proportion confidence interval


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