confidence limits

noun

For a statistical sample a pair of values that delimit the interval for which there is a certain probability that the true value of some deduced variable lies between those values.

“A sample of 1000 showed that the correlation between weight and height was 0.0167, with 95% confidence limits of 0.0142 and 0.0183.”

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nounconfidence limits pl (normally plural, singular confidence limit)

singular confidence limit

  1. pluralplural normallymathematicsFor a statistical sample a pair of values that delimit the interval for which there is a certain probability that the true value of some deduced variable lies between those values.

    A sample of 1000 showed that the correlation between weight and height was 0.0167, with 95% confidence limits of 0.0142 and 0.0183.

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