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Glossary: Statistical Inference and A/B Testing

Confidence interval

Also written: CI, confidence intervals, 95% CI, interval

A range of believable values for a parameter, built from a sample. '95% confident' means the method captures the truth in about 95% of repeated samples, not that 95% of individual values fall inside.

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Critical valueStandard error (SE)Margin of errorConfidence level