confidence limit

collocation in English

meaningsofconfidenceandlimit

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confidence
noun
uk
/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.fə.dəns/
the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or ...
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limit
noun
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/
the greatest amount, number, or level of something that is either possible ...
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(Definition ofconfidenceandlimitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A 95% upperconfidencelimitfor this impurity estimate could then be calculated.
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Nevertheless, across all conditions, over 70% of the patient observations fall above the upper 95%confidencelimitof the control data.
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The lower 95%confidencelimitfor the log-normal was generally higher than all the other models.
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This statement also implies that the upperconfidencelimitof the estimated impurity is equal to or less than 2%.
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In both test blocks, all subjects exhibited discriminative responses well above the upperconfidencelimitfor easy and difficult pairs presented.
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The proportions for all five primary characteristics are above the upper 95 percentconfidencelimit.
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Four secondary characteristics lie below the lower 95 percentconfidencelimit.
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If the upperconfidencelimitis above the 2% threshold, then the seed lot is rejected.
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Even at the extreme of the 95 %confidencelimit, a significant fall-off in species numbers is not seen until sample size is reduced to 15 000.
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A large test of 6800 seeds provided an estimate of 0.888 (95%confidencelimitfrom 0.881 to 0.896) for the seed lot used in this second experiment.
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Indeed, in noninferiority testing, only the lowerconfidencelimitis used, whereas in testing equivalence of effects, both upper and lower confidence limits are of interest.
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The error bars show the lower 95% confidence limits.
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The associated standard errors were also derived and tests for significance between strains were based on 95% confidence limits.
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The data were backtransformed and 95% confidence limits determined by multiplying standard errors by the relevant value from t-tables.
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The graphs, with 95 % confidence limits for each age (visit) interval, were generated.
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But the univariate tests of differences between these means failed to reject the null hypothesis at conventional confidence limits.
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