What does it mean when a confidence interval includes the value zero?
- The population mean is likely to be zero
- The sample mean is zero
- There is no effect in the population
- nan
If a confidence interval for a mean difference or an effect size includes zero, it suggests that there is no effect in the population and that the observed effect in the sample is likely due to sampling error.
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