Understanding Confidence Interval

Think frequentist, not Bayesian: a simulation of one million experiments on Udacity engagement dataset

Shaw Lu
Towards Data Science
5 min readMar 26, 2019

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“We are 95% confident that the population mean falls within the confidence interval.”

As it turns out, the statement above is misleading. Confidence interval is a concept born of frequentist statistics, whereas…

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