These statistics have been found from a reliable source dealing with alcoholism as a disease. There really is no way of knowing if you will become an alcoholic just because one or both of your parents drink alcohol. guess the bottom line is that if you choose to drink alcohol, then you will get drunk and itâs possible that you will have a battle with it like your mother or father did. Just donât do it at all.
Confidence intervals are also very useful for comparing means or proportions and can be used to assess whether there is a statistically meaningful difference. This is based on whether the confidence interval includes the null value (e.g., 0 for the difference in means, mean difference and risk difference or 1 for the relative risk and odds ratio).
Roughly speaking, a confidence interval is range of numbers within which we believe the true population parameter to fall. Here, we will focus on how to calculate a confidence interval for a population mean. Letâs think about this in terms of z-scores.hen we calculate a z-score, we want to look at how many standard deviations away from the mean our data point falls. A confidence interval relies on a similar principle. We want to estimate how many standard errors our sample mean falls from the true population mean on the sampling distribution.