Showing results for confidence level. Search instead for confidently select.

confidence level

British

noun

statistics a measure of the reliability of a result. A confidence level of 95 per cent or 0.95 means that there is a probability of at least 95 per cent that the result is reliable Compare significance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To be sure, the differences plotted in the accompanying chart are not significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when assessing whether a pattern is more than just a random fluke of the data.

From MarketWatch

The differences plotted in the chart are not significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when determining if a pattern is real.

From MarketWatch

Not surprisingly, this low R-squared is not significant at the 95% confidence level that statisticians often use when determining if a pattern is real.

From MarketWatch

Even here, however, the correlation between inflows and gold’s price is not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level.

From MarketWatch

For this study, results are accurate within ± 2.0 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.

From Science Daily

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023