Given n 12 s2 4490 and that the population is normally dis
Given n = 12, s2 = 44.90, and that the population is normally distributed, the 99% confidence interval for the population variance is
Solution
As
df = n - 1 = 11
alpha = (1 - confidence level)/2 = 0.005
Then the critical values for chi^2 are
chi^2(alpha/2) = 26.75684892
chi^2(alpha/2) = 2.603221891
Thus, as
lower bound = (n - 1) s^2 / chi^2(alpha/2) = 18.45882531
upper bound = (n - 1) s^2 / chi^2(1 - alpha/2) = 189.7264316
Thus, the confidence interval for the variance is
( 18.45882531 , 189.7264316 ) [ANSWER]
