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### Difference in CI Interpretations? [duplicate]

So the interpretation of a 95% CI is that there is a 95% probability that the CI contains the true parameter value, but not that there is a 95% probability that the true parameter lies in the CI? Can ...
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### Pick a card, any card: understanding the frequentist interpretation of a confidence interval

I've been trying to wrap my head around the oft-quoted misconceptions surrounding the frequentist interpretation of a confidence interval. There are many questions on Cross Validated and many ...
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### Confidence interval deeper explanation? [duplicate]

I have some data on a drug where doctors are trying to find out based on collected data how many patients get heart disease because of a drug. The output is the following: 95%CI 1.72(1.28-2.30) for ...
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### Does a confidence interval carry some extra error for non perfectly normal distributions?

I'm not trying to nitpick but I always want to make sure with stats that I clearly understand the delimitation between exact/theoretical measurements and "real life" measurements. Let's say for ...
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### What do confidence intervals say about precision (if anything)?

Morey et al (2015) argue that confidence intervals are misleading and there are multiple bias related to understanding of them. Among others, they describe the precision fallacy as following: The ...
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### What is the fundamental confidence interval fallacy? [duplicate]

Beginner question here. I've read (see this paper) that when computing confidence intervals if you get a given interval with a confidence level of 95%, then it is a fallacy to think that the true ...
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### Confidence intervals: how do we have to interpret them? [duplicate]

I have a very basic question regarding confidence intervals. I am confused between two interpretations of confidence intervals. Interpretation 1: If repeated samples were taken and the 95% ...
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### Now that I've rejected the null hypothesis what's next?

I've time and again rejected or failed to reject the null hypothesis. In the failure to reject case, you conclude that there isn't sufficient evidence for rejection and you "move on" (i.e., either ...
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### Hypothesis testing for a correlation that is zero or negative

I would like to test for a correlation that is zero or negative using the following hypothesis test: $H_0: p>0$ (Null hypothesis: the correlation is positive) $H_A: p\le0$ (Alternative hypothesis: ...
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### Confidence intervals for regression interpretation

I have done linear regression and plotted the data, the regression line and also the confidence interval (for 95% confidence). However it seems that most of the data points fall outside the ...
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### Confidence interval for Uniform($\theta$, $\theta + a$)

I am encountering a difficulty with the following task. Have I made a mistake, or is this an inherent flaw in the notion of confidence intervals? (Other such flaws exist.) Consider a random sample \$...
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### Multiple testing and logistic regression

I want to perform a number of univariate regressions with different symptoms (e.g. fever, cough, sneezing) as the response variable and one categorical variable (which is always the same each time) as ...
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### Confidence Interval for the Population

My (basic) understanding of a 95% confidence interval is that it is the interval within which the sample mean would fall 95 times should you take 100 random samples from the population. My query is ...