USMLE Forums banner
1 - 1 of 8 Posts

· Registered
Joined
·
1,357 Posts
Your answer is correct. But they don't call it Confidence Interval. This is just 95% of a normally distributed population. Which is as you said mean +/- 2 standard deviations, 95% Confidence Interval of the mean on the other hand is calculated by this formula
mean +/- 2 Z scores X SD/N
Actually, the formula for a 95% CI is

mean + or - [Z score x sd/sqrt(N)]...and Z is almost 2 (95% confidence Z score = 1.96)...so, you dont have to multiple Z score by two...and dont forget the square root in the denominator. :)
 
1 - 1 of 8 Posts
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Top