Exercise

Exercise 1 - Confidence Intervals of Polling Data

For each poll in the polling data set, use the CLT to create a 95% confidence interval for the spread. Create a new table called cis that contains columns for the lower and upper limits of the confidence intervals.

Instructions

100 XP

Use pipes %>% to pass the poll object on to the mutate function, which creates new variables.
Create a variable called X_hat that contains the estimate of the proportion of Clinton voters for each poll.
Create a variable called se that contains the standard error of the spread.
Calculate the confidence intervals using the qnorm function and your calculated se.
Use the select function to keep the following columns: state, startdate, enddate, pollster, grade, spread, lower, upper.

Take Hint (-30 XP)