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Missing the forest for the trees
The CI article missed or obfuscates a few critical notions:
- Confidence intervals are a way to express the mean and variability of a sample.
- Confidence implies a sample---probability has the connotation of a distribution.
As much as I like things to be Right, the right-of-way in an encyclopedia goes to the pedestrian. At least make the introduction more clear. neffk (talk) 22:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
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With regards to the approachability of this article
Why not use the Simple English version of this complicated article (link below)? It seems more accessible for the average reader than the in-depth one here.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval
DC (talk) 14:26, 30 March 2016 (UTC
A few carefully chosen words word make the article much clearer
For example:
"In each of the above, the following applies: If the true value of the parameter lies outside the 90% confidence interval once it has been calculated, then an event has occurred which had a probability of 10% (or less) of happening by chance."
It took me a long time to understand why this was not an example of the common misconceptions detailed in the following section. Only when I'd understood that "an event" should be taken to mean "the action of performing sampling and calculating the specific interval" and not simply "the lying outside the interval of the population mean", did the sentence not appear at odds with a correct interpretations of the confidence interval. -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.123.100 (talk) 22:37, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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