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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2017 Prelims Mathematics III 7 a v Solution by
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The pivotal quantity lies in and satisfies . ThusRearranging these inequalities yields the exact confidence intervalFor every , its coverage probability is exactly ; the result uses the finite-sample probability distribution, with no normal approximation.
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