statistical confidence
1Confidence (disambiguation) — Confidence can refer to: Concepts Confidence, meaning trust or faith in someone Confidence (politics), trust in government Vote of confidence, a political step Confidence interval, a term used in statistical analysis: see also Confidence in… …
2confidence intervals — confidence intervals, confidence limits The spread of values around the mean for a sample surveyvariable which, using the conventional 95 per cent confidence level, equate to the mean plus or minus two standard deviations, or standard errors of… …
3Confidence interval — This article is about the confidence interval. For Confidence distribution, see Confidence Distribution. In statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is a particular kind of interval estimate of a population parameter and is used to indicate the… …
4Confidence distribution — This article is about the confidence distribution. For Confidence interval, see Confidence interval. In statistics, the concept of a confidence distribution (CD) has often been loosely referred to as a distribution function on the parameter space …
5Confidence band — A confidence band is used in statistical analysis to represent the uncertainty in an estimate of a curve or function based on limited or noisy data. Confidence bands are often used as part of the graphical presentation of results in a statistical …
6Statistical inference — In statistics, statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions from data that are subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation.[1] More substantially, the terms statistical inference,… …
7Statistical significance — In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. A statistically significant difference simply means there is statistical evidence that there is a difference; it does not mean the… …
8Confidence in statistical conclusions — Following a statistical study, a layman may well ask: How much confidence can we have in these conclusions? . A problem immediately arises because a statistician s technical understanding of the term confidence can differ radically from a… …
9Statistical hypothesis testing — This article is about frequentist hypothesis testing which is taught in introductory statistics. For Bayesian hypothesis testing, see Bayesian inference. A statistical hypothesis test is a method of making decisions using data, whether from a… …
10Confidence region — In statistics, a confidence region is a multi dimensional generalization of a confidence interval. It is a set of points in an n dimensional space, often represented as an ellipsoid around a point which is an estimated solution to a problem,… …
