Are boys more likely? A random sample of 24,468 records of newborn first born children revealed the number of boys in a sample to be 13,175 boys. Provide a point atinare and 98 percent confidence interval estimate for the true proportion of newborn baby boys.

Definition Definition Method in statistics by which an observation’s uncertainty can be quantified. The main use of interval estimating is for describing a range that is made by transforming a point estimate by determining the range of values, or interval within which the population parameter is likely to fall. This range helps in measuring its precision.