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confidence interval

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confidence interval

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Also known as CI

range of estimates for an unknown parameter

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Encyclopedic overview

Each row of points is a sample from the same normal distribution. The colored lines are 50% confidence intervals for the population mean μ. At the center of each interval is the sample mean

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “confidence interval” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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