Select True or False from each pull-down menu, depending on whether the corresponding statement is true or false.

? True False  1. A confidence interval is an interval estimate for which there is a specified degree of certainty that the actual value of the population parameter will fall within the interval.

? True False  2. An interval estimate is an estimate of the range for a sample statistic.

? True False  3. Knowing that an estimator is unbiased only assures us that its expected value equals the parameter, but it does not tell us how closely the estimator is to the parameter.

? True False  4. An unbiased estimator is said to be consistent if the difference between the estimator and the parameter grows smaller as the sample size grows larger.