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S5E13 The Confidence Interval's Tale

Quantitude

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Understanding Confidence Intervals and Their Misinterpretation

The chapter explores the concept of confidence intervals and the challenge of fully comprehending them, even for textbooks. It highlights the misinterpretation of confidence intervals as a probability statement and presents the correct interpretation as a statement about long-run behavior. The chapter also touches on the history of confidence intervals and provides a book recommendation on statistics.

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