What are the nature and purpose of confidence intervals?
What is a confidence interval?
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0I will post my own answer below. I expect probably others will as well. – 2012-09-08
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0Is this question designed to address abstract duplicates? – 2012-09-08
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0I know of no duplicates, and I don't know what "abstract" duplicates are. – 2012-09-08
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0See [this](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1756/coping-with-abstract-duplicate-questions) meta question (or many others) for a discussion of abstract duplicates. – 2012-09-08
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1OK, now I can answer: No, it's not meant to address such a thing. – 2012-09-08
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0Very good question, that I hope people who ask a technical confidence interval question gets directed to. – 2012-09-08