| Article ID: | iaor2016234 |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 22 |
| End Page Number: | 24 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Silva Jos Luis ngel Rodrguez, Aguilar Mario Snchez |
| Keywords: | statistics: general |
We present a proposal for helping students to cope with statistical word problems related to the classification of different cases of confidence intervals. The proposal promotes an environment where students can explicitly discuss the reasons underlying their classification of cases.