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confidence interval
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confidence interval [′kän·fə·dəns ‚in·tər·vəl]
(statistics)
An interval which has a specified probability of containing a given parameter or characteristic.


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Confidence intervals, which allow for fluctuations in test scores and bolsters a school's percentage of student scoring at proficient levels.
Exact confidence intervals were calculated, assuming that the number of deaths in each stratum was Poisson distributed.
In addition, other important teaching objectives can also be emphasized, such as how to interpret scatterplots and correlation, evaluating the tenability of assumptions, writing null and alternative hypotheses associated with hypothesis tests, and reporting and interpreting confidence intervals and p-values.
 
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