CONFIDENCEINTERVAL

Confidence interval

In statistics, a confidence interval is a type of interval estimate of a population parameter and is used to indicate the reliability of an estimate. It is an observed interval, in principle different from sample to sample, that frequently includes the parameter of interest if the experiment is repeated. How frequently the observed interval contains the parameter is determined by the confidence level or confidence coefficient. More specifically, the meaning of the term "confidence level" is that, if confidence intervals are constructed across many separate data analyses of repeated experiments, the proportion of such ...

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confidence interval

Noun

  1. a particular kind of interval estimate of a population parameter.


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