Explain What the Phrase 95% Confident Means When We Interpret

Multiple Choice

Explain what the phrase 95% confident means when we interpret a 95% confidence interval for μ.

A) In repeated sampling, 95% of similarly constructed intervals contain the value of the population mean.
B) 95% of similarly constructed intervals would contain the value of the sampled mean.
C) 95% of the observations in the population fall within the bounds of the calculated interval.
D) The probability that the sample mean falls in the calculated interval is 0.95.