"confidence limits" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: confidence limit [singular]
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  1. (statistics) For a statistical sample a pair of values that delimit the interval for which there is a certain probability that the true value of some deduced variable lies between those values. Tags: plural, plural-normally Categories (topical): Statistics
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