.. _sphx_glr_api_gallery_statistics_confidence_intervals:

Confidence intervals
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Intervals for means, proportions, and variances.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Builds many 95% confidence intervals from repeated samples of a known population, and checks that close to 95% of them actually contain the true parameter -- the frequentist interpretation of &quot;95% confidence.&quot;">

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