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Your coworker is correct, confidence intervals are based on the percentiles of the sampling distribution of the statistic of interest. In this case, the statistic is $\hat{\mu}=\frac{1}{n}\sum X_i$....

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Relationship Between Percentile and Confidence Interval (On a Mean)

This question came up at work when someone asked me what the relationship was between a percentile and a confidence interval, and I had a very hard time articulating my thoughts. The context was a very...

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