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What Is a Confidence Interval?

Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval

In this bar chart, the top ends of the bars indicate observation means and the red line segments represent the confidence intervals surrounding them. Although the bars are shown as symmetric in this chart, they do not have to be symmetric.

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