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con'fidence lim"its



Statistics.
a pair of numbers used to estimate a characteristic of a population, such that the numbers can be stated with a specified probability that the population characteristic is included between them.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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