| index |
|---|
| 1.56 |
| 1.49 |
| 1.47 |
| 1.41 |
| 1.34 |
| 1.29 |
| 1.25 |
| 1.22 |
| 1.23 |
| 1.12 |
| 1.10 |
| 1.08 |
During an index of refraction of water laboratory one laboratory group gathered the data in the table.

| Confidence interval statistics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistic or Parameter | Symbol | Equations | OpenOffice |
| Degrees of freedom | df | n-1 | =COUNT(data)-1 |
| Find a tcritical value from a confidence level c | tc | =TINV(1-c;df) | |
| Standard error of the sample mean | SE | =STDEV(data)/SQRT(sample size n) | |
| Calculate a margin of error for the mean E for n < 30 using sx. Should also be used for n ≥ 30. | E | =tc*sx/SQRT(n) | |
| Calculate a confidence interval for a population mean μ from a sample mean x and an error tolerance E | x - E ≤ μ ≤ x + E | ||