confidence interval
noun
: a group of continuous or discrete adjacent values that is used to estimate a statistical parameter (such 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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When Ars Technica asked about this, a Great Place to Work spokesperson said that the report uses a confidence interval of 95 percent.
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Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
The margin of error is plus or minus 4% at a 95% confidence interval.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
Yet over time both p values and confidence intervals took hold, offering the illusion of certainty.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
After all of this, the results of both were reported not in a straightforward ranking but in a series of overlapping bands of 95 percent confidence intervals, which, ironically, showed that the differences between most doctoral programs are actually substantively very small.
—Peter Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2013
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Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
The margin of error is plus or minus 4% at a 95% confidence interval.
—Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
Yet over time both p values and confidence intervals took hold, offering the illusion of certainty.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
After all of this, the results of both were reported not in a straightforward ranking but in a series of overlapping bands of 95 percent confidence intervals, which, ironically, showed that the differences between most doctoral programs are actually substantively very small.
—Peter Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 15 Sep. 2013
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