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Glossary Term

Confidence Interval

A confidence interval is a range of values that expresses the uncertainty around a statistical estimate. For example, a 95 percent confidence interval represents the range in which the true value would fall 95 percent of the time if the study were repeated many times. RTI uses confidence intervals to communicate the precision and reliability of research findings and to help stakeholders interpret the strength of the evidence.