A company that produces white bread is concerned about the amount of sodium in its bread. The company takes a simple random sample of 100 slices of bread and computes the sample mean to be 103 milligrams of sodium per slice with a standard deviation of 10 milligrams. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the unknown mean sodium level.

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Estimation

A new framework of data analysis where the new statistical methods are used for interpreting the results and analyzing the data is known as estimation in statistics.