Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

confidence limits

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables: con-fi-dence lim-its
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

confidence limit (singular)

Questions

What does confidence limits mean?: 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.

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