How to Use confidence interval in a Sentence

confidence interval

noun
  • This problem could be fixed, perhaps, by adding some kind of a confidence interval to the measure.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The smaller the confidence interval, the more sure that researchers are about a number.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The confidence interval would have to reach down no lower than 30 percent.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The margin of error is plus or minus 4% at a 95% confidence interval.
    — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
  • But its confidence interval is plus or minus 16 hours — leaving open a huge window of the planet where the object might land.
    — NBC News, 7 May 2021
  • The margin of error was plus or minus 3%, with a 95% confidence interval.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
  • If the 95-percent confidence interval is between two and eight seconds faster, that’s promising.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • Yet over time both p values and confidence intervals took hold, offering the illusion of certainty.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
  • One alternative way of presenting results is to use a confidence interval.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • And that math is supposed to include a statistical range of possibility called a confidence interval.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 13 Nov. 2020
  • These estimates carry wide confidence intervals and should be treated accordingly.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • The margin of error for the total sample, conducted this spring, was plus or minus 5 percentage points at the 95% confidence interval.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Backblaze's blog also highlighted the large confidence intervals in the table caused by the limited drive days for those SSDs.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
  • These estimates carry wide confidence intervals.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • Trump, who analysts and pundits would constantly note had a steady approval rating, had a 95% confidence interval around his approval rating that was three times as large as Biden's has been.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • At a mean photon number of 11, the researchers measured bit-flip times ranging between 33 and 60 minutes at a 95 percent confidence interval.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The survey's plus/minus 262 confidence interval means the total population could range between 884 to 1,408.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Deal teams, property managers, and analysts must understand what probabilistic predictions actually mean, how to interpret confidence intervals, and how to effectively prompt these systems.
    — Ali Hoss, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The confidence interval came in below the pre-specified threshold, a miss that could complicate regulatory review despite the overall data and safety profile looking solid, STAT’s Matthew Herper writes.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 23 Mar. 2026

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