What happens to the width of a confidence interval as the confidence level increases?
- It decreases
- It fluctuates unpredictably
- It increases
- It stays the same
The width of a confidence interval increases as the confidence level increases. A higher confidence level means that you want to be more sure that you are capturing the true population parameter, which requires a wider interval.
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