44 questions linked to/from What, precisely, is a confidence interval?
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### What does a confidence interval (vs. a credible interval) actually express? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What, precisely, is a confidence interval? Yes, similar questions have been asked before, but many of the answers seem contradictory and don't address my issue. (Or my ...
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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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### Boston University School of Public Health web page on confidence intervals [duplicate]

I'm wondering about the correctness of the Boston University School of Public Health's web page on confidence intervals, particularly the interpretations. For example, specific interpretation ...
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### How to correctly understand confidence intervals and confidence level [duplicate]

I recently read an online discussion about confidence levels and confidence intervals. To be honest, I'm confused. What's the bottom line there? For a specific statement, say, Foobar is 3.45 (...
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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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### Confidence Intervals Intuition [duplicate]

I am new to statistics and have run into some trouble understanding computing confidence intervals and am seeking some help. I will outline the motivating example in my textbook and hopefully someone ...
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### having trouble interpreting confint function using R (logistic regression) [duplicate]

I'm trying to interpret these results of using R confint function , but I can not understand. This is a logistic regression about breast cancer. how to interpret confint function. What the 2.5% and 97....
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### What are confidence intervals? [duplicate]

Can anyone please help me in understanding what confidence intervals are and how are they useful in statistics and machine learning?
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### How to Interpret Confidence Interval ILSR Ch 3 Q10g [duplicate]

Using the Carseats dataset in R, predicting the Sales of carseats (Unit sales (in thousands)) using price and US (sold in US, not sold in US). How would I interpret the confidence interval in words? ...
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### Interpretation of the confidence interval [duplicate]

I just read that a (1 - alpha)*100% confidence interval cannot be interpreted as follows: The probability that mu is in the confidence interval is (1 - alpha)*100%. That is counterintuitive from the ...
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### Why does a 95% Confidence Interval (CI) not imply a 95% chance of containing the mean?

It seems that through various related questions here, there is consensus that the "95%" part of what we call a "95% confidence interval" refers to the fact that if we were to exactly replicate our ...
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### Are there any examples where Bayesian credible intervals are obviously inferior to frequentist confidence intervals

A recent question on the difference between confidence and credible intervals led me to start re-reading Edwin Jaynes' article on that topic: Jaynes, E. T., 1976. `Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian ...
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### Clarification on interpreting confidence intervals?

My current understanding of the notion "confidence interval with confidence level $1 - \alpha$" is that if we tried to calculate the confidence interval many times (each time with a fresh sample), it ...
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### What's the difference between a probability and a proportion?

Say I have eaten hamburgers every Tuesday for years. You could say that I eat hamburgers 14% of the time, or that the probability of me eating a hamburger in a given week is 14%. What are the main ...
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### How to choose a confidence level?

I often use a 90% confidence level, accepting that this has a greater degree of uncertainty than 95% or 99%. But are there any guidelines on how to choose the right confidence level? Or guidelines for ...

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