In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, User968758 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What's a confidence interval? The word "confidence" doesn't refer to the >particular end up with, it refers to the process that was used to get it. For >example, a 95% CI is obtained using a method that, in repetitions of the same >experiment, will give correct results 95% of the time. That's the way to >explain it. And do you also go on to explain why anyone would want to use such a thing? If all there is to it is your "explanation", there would be no reason to. Radford Neal . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
