confidence interval

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Noun

confidence interval (plural confidence intervals)

1. (statistics) A range defined such that there is a fixed probability that the value of the measured parameter will fall within the range.

Related terms

• confidence level

Translations

a particular kind of interval estimate of a population parameter

Catalan: interval de confiança m Chinese: Mandarin: 置信區間 / 置信区间 (zh) (zhìxìn qūjiān) (Chinese mainland, Hong Kong), 信賴區間 / 信赖区间 (zh) (xìnlài qūjiān) (Taiwan) Czech: interval spolehlivosti m Dutch: betrouwbaarheidsinterval (nl) n Estonian: usaldusvahemik Finnish: luottamusväli (fi) French: intervalle de confiance (fr) m Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Konfidenzintervall (de) n, Vertrauensbereich m, Mutungsintervall n Hungarian: megbízhatósági intervallum (hu), konfidenciaintervallum (hu) Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: selang kepercayaan Italian: intervallo di confidenza m, intervallo di fiducia m Korean: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: konfidensintervall n Polish: przedział ufności m Portuguese: intervalo de confiança m Romanian: interval de încredere n Russian: довери́тельный интерва́л m (doverítelʹnyj intervál) Spanish: intervalo de confianza m Swedish: konfidensintervall (sv) n Ukrainian: дові́рчий інтерва́л m (dovírčyj intervál) Welsh: cyfywng hyder f

Further reading

• confidence interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia