Confidence interval
A range produced by a stated statistical procedure to quantify uncertainty around an estimate.
What Confidence interval does not show
It does not mean the fixed true value has that probability of lying inside this completed interval.
Related terms in Measurement and evaluation
How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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Questions about Confidence interval
What is Confidence interval?
A range produced by a stated statistical procedure to quantify uncertainty around an estimate.
What does Confidence interval not show or guarantee?
It does not mean the fixed true value has that probability of lying inside this completed interval.
Which area of the glossary does Confidence interval belong to?
Measurement and evaluation: How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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