In a survey conducted by the Gallup Organization, 1100 adult Americans were asked how many hours they worked in the previous week. Based on the results, a 95% confidence interval for the mean number of hours worked had a lower bound of 42.7 and an upper bound of 44.5. Provide two recommendations for decreasing the margin of error of the interval.

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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.