This applet allows users to drag sliders to change the confidence level and sample size. The applet helps users visualize the meaning of the phrase "C% confidence," by showing that C% of the samples ...

Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 48, No. 3 (1999), pp. 413-418 (6 pages) The overlapping coefficient, defined as the common area under two probability ...

The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data. This feeling of confidence is central to decision making, and, despite ample ...

Explain the behaviour of a confidence interval over repeated independent sampling and how this is linked to the interpretation of a confidence interval as "providing a range of values which we are XX% ...

Human brains are constantly processing data to make statistical assessments that translate into the feeling we call confidence, according to a study published in Neuron. This feeling of confidence is ...