Noun
confidence interval (plural confidence intervals)
(statistics) A range defined such that there is a fixed probability that the value of the measured parameter will fall within the range.
Based on phylogenetic analysis these two genotypes appear to have originated in West Africa citation and were first introduced into Brazil. citation The date of introduction into South America appears to be 1822 (95% confidence interval 1701 to 1911). Source: Internet
A unifying position of critics is that statistics should not lead to a conclusion or a decision but to a probability or to an estimated value with a confidence interval rather than to an accept-reject decision regarding a particular hypothesis. Source: Internet
Formally, a 95% confidence interval for a value is a range where, if the sampling and analysis were repeated under the same conditions (yielding a different dataset), the interval would include the true (population) value in 95% of all possible cases. Source: Internet
The multivariable incidence rate ratio for hair relaxer use relative to nonuse was 1.17 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.06, 1.30). Source: Internet
I rewrote to properly explain the confidence interval. Source: Internet
Pew estimates the 90 percent confidence interval on its 2012 estimate is 11.1 million to 12.2 million. Source: Internet