How does increasing the number of replicate measurements affect the

Trace Mcintyre

Trace Mcintyre

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2022-04-21

How does increasing the number of replicate measurements affect the reliability of measurements? Explain your answer. (Hint: better precision gives smaller confidence intervals)

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Marely Anthony

Marely Anthony

Beginner2022-04-22Added 8 answers

The confidence interval is given as
C.I.=x+zsn
where n, is the number of sample from the population.
The width of the confidence interval is 2zsn, means that if n, increases that is the denominator then the confidence interval decreases as they are inversely proportional.
Therefore, increasing the number of replicate measurements affect the reliability of measurements that is increasing n, the confidence interval decreases.

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