size was 1,013. It is possible that pollsters sample 1,013 voters who happen to vote for bush when in fact the population is evenly split between bush and kerry, but this is extremely unlikely (p this section will briefly discuss the standard (statistics) of a percentage, the binomial proportion confidence interval, and connect these two concepts to the . For simplicity, the calculations here assume the poll was based on a simple random sample from a As of the census of 2000, there were 236 people... read more