Can somebody help me understand calculating critical values for a confidence interval? (stats)
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Im so confused rn, I thought I understood this concept but it turns out not cause Im studying for the a stats test and one of the questions it says the critical value for a Confidence Interval of 80% is 1.28 and I don't understand why.
Their reasoning is 1 - .80 = .20, divded by two to get the area of the tails is .10, so then they add one of the tails (.10) to .80 which gets .90 and then they find that on the normal table which correlates to 1.28.
The way I have been doing is like this, 1 - .80= .20, and then divided by two is .10. So then I just need to find .10 in the normal table. Thats how they say to do it on youtube and it has been working for me up until now, I dont understand why they add .10 to .8 and why it doesnt say to do that in any video.
Can somebody pls help me understand it would be much appreciated, I have a test coming up and this is the only thing I cannot grasp .