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Change the range not the language on confidence intervals

Datamethods Discussion Forum [Unofficial] February 24, 2026
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This is getting away from what researchers need. In the classical statistics world, one specifies a “coverage” probability and the procedure returns two limits. In practice it is much more common to desire the probability that the true unknown effect is within a researcher-specified interval that defines a clinically meaningful range.

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