Title: Difference between uncertainty intervals and confidence intervals in public health
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Difference between uncertainty intervals and confidence intervals in public health
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25th Sep, 2018
Gulzar Shah
Georgia Southern University
An uncertainty interval refers to confidence interval, the difference between the two being only philosophical rather than mathematical. Confidence interval is an interval estimate of the parameter. Thus a confidence interval is meant to estimate the degree of uncertainty in a sample statistic. The wider confidence interval means greater uncertainty level and narrower one indicate greater certainty level. Therefor philosophically, uncertainty interval is a more appropriate term for the confidence interval. For a lay person, a 95% confidence interval can be thought as the lower and upper limit for a parameter estimate which will contain the true estimates for 95 out of hundred random samples. Cite
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25th Sep, 2018
Gulzar Shah
Georgia Southern University
An uncertainty interval refers to confidence interval, the difference between the two being only philosophical rather than mathematical. Confidence interval is an interval estimate of the parameter. Thus a confidence interval is meant to estimate the degree of uncertainty in a sample statistic. The wider confidence interval means greater uncertainty level and narrower one indicate greater certainty level.