Q. 37 - The Practice of Statistics for AP

Question

Abstain from drinking Describe a possible source of error that is not included in the margin of error for the $99\%$ confidence interval in Exercise $35$

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

There are $3$ possible sources of errors.

Step1: Concept Information

Showing the possible sources of error that are not included in the margin of error.

Step 2: Explanation

The margin of error does not take into consideration three types of errors (because the margin of error only measures the sampling error).

Because of selection bias, a segment of the population will be omitted.

When a process is employed to obtain results that deviate from the true value, this is known as response bias measurement (could be caused by people answering untruthfully).

When there is insufficient data for everyone in the sample, nonresponse bias occurs.