Talk:Robust confidence interval

Original text copied over from article on confidence intervals, where it was in danger of being deleted. I think there may be something worthwhile here. Melcombe (talk) 10:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I find this article incredibly confusing and self-contradictory. Why don't you just say that, if you use the sample standard deviation to compute confidence intervals, then if a single weighing is off by a large amount (maybe a decimal digit was completely omitted, for instance), then the computed confidence interval might be thrown off by a lot? And you could say that the purpose of robust confidence intervals is to ensure that no single error or outlier can throw off your results by a huge margin. That would be a lot more understandable than the current paragraph. Also, there are apparent errors. "weighing 1000 objects": I think you mean "weighing 100 objects, each one weighed ten times". "200 extra weighings": huh? do you mean "700 extra weighings"? 70.36.134.243 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:13, 12 November 2010 (UTC).