How to Use confidence interval in a Sentence

confidence interval

noun
  • Our model treats districts as separate geographic units similar to states, but with larger confidence intervals.
    G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 11 June 2024
  • The smaller the confidence interval, the more sure that researchers are about a number.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The confidence interval for the active cases ranges from 0.1% to 2%.
    cleveland, 1 Oct. 2020
  • This problem could be fixed, perhaps, by adding some kind of a confidence interval to the measure.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The dark blue shading shows the 95% confidence interval.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The confidence interval would have to reach down no lower than 30 percent.
    New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • But its confidence interval is plus or minus 16 hours — leaving open a huge window of the planet where the object might land.
    NBC News, 7 May 2021
  • The margin of error was plus or minus 3%, with a 95% confidence interval.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
  • If the 95-percent confidence interval is between two and eight seconds faster, that’s promising.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • The companies said the margin of error was plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, with a confidence interval of 95%.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Backblaze's blog also highlighted the large confidence intervals in the table caused by the limited drive days for those SSDs.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Trump, who analysts and pundits would constantly note had a steady approval rating, had a 95% confidence interval around his approval rating that was three times as large as Biden's has been.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • And that math is supposed to include a statistical range of possibility called a confidence interval.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • One alternative way of presenting results is to use a confidence interval.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • According to Live Science, the team reached its conclusion with a standard deviation of 3.5 sigma, far below the 5 sigma confidence interval that physicists rely on in order to confirm a theory.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2019
  • That’s an efficacy, a reduction in relative risk, of about 74.2 percent (with a pretty wide confidence interval, indicating that the statistical power here is only so-so).
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • The model’s output is given as a range, bounded by statistical likelihood parameters – e.g., the 95% confidence interval.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Though the vaccine efficacy estimates with potentially wide confidence intervals are not ideal, the doses may offer baseline protection from severe outcomes, which could be critical for higher-risk children.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The difference in infertility rates in high-income versus low-income countries is not statistically significant, Mburu said, due to overlapping confidence intervals and data gaps from certain global regions.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In some cases, the confidence interval ranges from negative infinity to positive infinity: literally any effect size is possible, and the researchers can’t reject the possibility that the program either paid for itself or was actively destructive.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 30 July 2019
  • The margin of error is a standard statistical calculation that represents differences between the sample and total population at a confidence interval, or probability, calculated to be 95%.
    oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2022

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