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confidence interval
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Definition of CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
: a group of continuous or discrete adjacent values that is used to estimate a statistical parameter (as a mean or variance) and that tends to include the true value of the parameter a predetermined proportion of the time if the process of finding the group of values is repeated a number of times
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First Known Use of CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
1934
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