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Confidence interval is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CONFIDENCE INTERVAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confidence interval

In statistics, a confidence interval is a measure of the reliability of an estimate. It is a type of interval estimate of a population parameter. It is an observed interval, in principle different from sample to sample, that frequently includes the parameter of interest if the experiment is repeated. How frequently the observed interval contains the parameter is determined by the confidence level or confidence coefficient. More specifically, the meaning of the term "confidence level" is that, if confidence intervals are constructed across many separate data analyses of repeated experiments, the proportion of such intervals that contain the true value of the parameter will match the confidence level; this is guaranteed by the reasoning underlying the construction of confidence intervals. Whereas two-sided confidence limits form a confidence interval, their one-sided counterparts are referred to as lower or upper confidence bounds. Confidence intervals consist of a range of values that act as good estimates of the unknown population parameter. However, in infrequent cases, none of these values may cover the value of the parameter.

Definition of confidence interval in the English dictionary

The definition of confidence interval in the dictionary is an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFIDENCE INTERVAL

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFIDENCE INTERVAL

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Translation of «confidence interval» into 25 languages

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The translations of confidence interval from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confidence interval» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

置信区间
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intervalo de confianza
570 millions of speakers

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confidence interval
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विश्वास अंतराल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فاصل الثقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

доверительный интервал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intervalo de confiança
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আস্থা ব্যবধান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intervalle de confiance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selang keyakinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Konfidenzintervall
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

信頼区間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신뢰 구간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Interval kapercayan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

khoảng tin cậy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பக இடைவெளியை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आत्मविश्वास मध्यांतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güven aralığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intervallo di confidenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przedział ufności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

довірчий інтервал
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interval de încredere
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

διάστημα εμπιστοσύνης
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

vertroue interval
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

konfidensintervall
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

konfidensintervall
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFIDENCE INTERVAL»

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Modern Epidemiology
The range of values is called a confidence interval, and the endpoints of that interval are called confidence limits. The process of calculating the confidence interval is an example of the process of interval estimation. The width of a confidence ...
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, 2008
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Confidence Intervals
The book covers such pertinent topics as: the transformation principle whereby a confidence interval for a parameter may be used to construct an interval for any monotonic transformation of that parameter; confidence intervals on ...
Michael Smithson, 2003
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Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research
Indicating the Precision of an Estimate with a Confidence Interval The confidence interval for a point estimate is the range of values that are consistent with that estimate. Confidence intervals can be used to indicate the precision of descriptive ...
Warren S. Browner, 2006
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Biostatistics for Epidemiologists
By confidence interval we mean an interval constructed according to such a principle that it will, with a certain probability, contain the desired parameter value . If, for example, a study results in a 95% confidence interval for RR ranging from  ...
Anders Ahlbom, 1993
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Research in Health Care: Concepts, Designs and Methods
Such an interval is called a confidence interval. Confidence interval for the population mean For example, the mean from a random sample of size n is a point estimate of the mean in the population from which the sampling was performed.
Julius Sim, Chris Wright, 2000
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Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence : Strategies for Study ...
The p-value function is a description of the random error that is present, and the bounds of the confidence interval help to describe how peaked or flat the p-value function is around the point estimate. In a large study, the p-value function will be  ...
David A. Savitz Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology University of North Carolina School of Public Health, 2003
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Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists
We can use Equation 2.6 to determine confidence intervals for different levels of confidence, e.g. for 99% confidence intervals, simply use the t value between which 99% of all t values lie. The 99% confidence interval will be wider than the ...
Gerald Peter Quinn, Michael J. Keough, 2002
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Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical ...
Computation of a confidence interval for the mean of the population represented by a sample The hypothesis testing procedure described for the single-sample t test and the single- sample z test merely allows the researcher to determine ...
David J. Sheskin, 2003
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A Concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics: With Worked ...
(a) Estimate the mean number of days lost through illness, for the restricted population, and give a 95% confidence interval for the mean. (b) Estimate the percentage of people in the town who fall into the excluded categories, and give a 99% ...
Janet Crawshaw, Joan Chambers, 2001
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Design and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence ...
Alternatively, Westlake (1976) and Metzler (1974) indicated that the method of confidence interval is an appropriate method for assessing average bioequivalence. On the basis of the confidence interval, Westlake (1981) suggested the ...
Shein-Chung Chow, Jen-pei Liu, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFIDENCE INTERVAL»

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NatGas to Average $2.97/MMBtu This Year, $3.31 in 2016, EIA Says
Current options and futures prices imply that market participants place the lower and upper bounds for the 95% confidence interval for October ... «Natural Gas Intelligence, Jul 15»
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Are journalists lowballing the number of Iraqi war dead?
A confidence interval is the degree of certainty researchers attain that their estimates—in this case, of the death toll—fall within a certain range. «Columbia Journalism Review, Jul 15»
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What Google's New Cross-Device Benchmarks Actually Mean For …
Google actually uses the same confidence interval for cross-device conversions that the Department of Health recommends for public health. «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»
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CoreLogic Reports National Homes Prices Rose by 6.3 Percent …
The forecast accuracy represents a 95-percent statistical confidence interval with a +/- 2.0 percent margin of error for the index including ... «Virtual Press Office, Jul 15»
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Dysbiosis of upper respiratory tract microbiota in elderly pneumonia …
... decreased in elderly pneumonia patients compared with healthy elderly (mean 120 (95% confidence interval (CI); 113–127) vs 159 (95% CI; ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Study: Diagnostic Imaging in Seniors With New Back Pain Is …
... radiography was 8.54 versus 8.74 for the control group (difference, –0.10; 95% confidence interval [CI], –0.71 to 0.50; mixed model, P=0.36). «Pain Medicine News, Jul 15»
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Targeted Recombinant Progeny: a design for ultra-high resolution …
The confidence interval (QTL) flanking the point estimate of QTN-location is proportional to the number of individuals in the mapping population ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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FOLFOX/Cetuximab Prolonged Survival in Mutation-Free Colorectal …
... for FOLFOX plus cetuximab compared with 4.5 months for FOLFOX alone (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.58–1.12; ... «Cancer Network, Jul 15»
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AIMS Project Improves Adherence, Outcomes in HIV Patients
... the viral load was 28% higher in the control group than in the intervention group (odds ratio, 1.28; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04 - 1.52). «Medscape, Jul 15»
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Questions Raised for Telemedical Monitoring of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
The researchers observed no difference with respect to wound healing (hazard ratio [HR], 1.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.87–1.42; ... «Monthly Prescribing Reference, Jul 15»

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