Apart from questions about what is a 'correct result', this describes the prediction interval, not the confidence interval.
Alan
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 12:26 PM, User968758 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.
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