Confidence interval

A confidence interval is a range of values built from a sample to estimate a population parameter. A 95% level means that the method, repeated over many samples, would produce an interval containing the true value in about 95% of cases. It does not give a 95% probability for an interval that has already been computed.

Example

Approximate: mean +/- 1.96 x standard error for a 95% interval.

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