Question: For an online Elementary Statistics class discussion , students were asked to submit a post that explains how to interpret a 95% confidence interval .

For an online Elementary Statistics class discussion, students were asked to submit a post that explains how to interpret a 95% confidence interval. One student posted their interpretation as "There is a 95% chance that the population parameter will fall inside the confidence interval." Another student responded to this post with "I don't think that your interpretation is correct. The population parameter is a fixed value. We just don't know what it is because we don't have all the population data values to calculate it. I think it's the confidence interval that has a 95% chance of surrounding the unknown population parameter." At the beginning of Week 11 (before Wednesday), submit a post to this discussion identifying which student properly interpreted a 95% confidence interval. One student's post is valid. The other is not

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