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What is real life/conceptually is meant by "confidence" in Wilson score
I am calculating 'popularity' scores for content in a web app based on 'views' and 'likes'.
I have not studied statistics but I have found the method I need to use here:
http://www.evanmiller.org/how-...
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Prediction intervals and bias-variance tradeoff
I was looking for literature which connects prediction intervals with the bias-variance trade-off.
Obviously both concepts deal with describing a mean squared deviation:
the bias variance tradeoff ...
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Why do we use %95 confidence interval when it does not mean the likelihood of containing the true parameter?
When I was an undergrad student, it was stated that because the point estimation does not exactly match the true parameter, we use confidence intervals. Then, they told that with a %95 confidence ...
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