inst/snippet/z-ci.R

In rpruim/fastR: Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R (2nd Edition)

zci <- function(x, sd = 100, conf.level = 0.95) { 
  alpha = 1 - conf.level
  n = length(x)
  zstar <- - qnorm(alpha / 2)
  interval <- mean(x)  + c(-1,1) * zstar * sd / sqrt(n)
  return(list(conf.int = interval, estimate = mean(x)))
}