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The notion of confidence, and how to interpret confidence intervals and statements is presented.
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We speak about intervals in one dimension, but confidence regions can be constructed in a multidimensional parameter space situation. However, for now we are restricting ourselves to an interval for a single “scalar” parameter, and not a parameter vector.
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Pardo, S. (2020). Confidence. In: Statistical Analysis of Empirical Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43328-4_3
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