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confidence limits

plural noun Statistics.

a pair of numbers used to estimate a characteristic of a population, such that the numbers can be stated with a specified probability that the population characteristic is included between them.

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Nearby words

  1. confide,
  2. confidence,
  3. confidence game,
  4. confidence interval,
  5. confidence level,
  6. confidence man,
  7. confidence trick,
  8. confident,
  9. confidente,
  10. confidential

Origin of confidence limits

First recorded in 1935–40
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