Statistics Knowledge Check: CLT, A/B Testing, and Confidence Interval
Context
You are in a data science interview. Answer the following about the Central Limit Theorem (CLT), its relevance to A/B testing, and construct a confidence interval for a mean with known population standard deviation.
Questions
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State the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) and explain why it matters for A/B testing.
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Given a sample mean of 3, a known population standard deviation of 1, and n = 400, construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean.
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On a whiteboard, sketch the sampling distribution of the sample mean for part (2) and mark the 95% confidence bounds.