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Confidence level In survey research: the degree of accuracy which experience indicates can be assumed on the basis of a sample of a certain size for a population of a certain size; Correlations: very generally – an estimation of the degree to which the data analyzed provides good evidence for the existence of a correlation between variables studied in the target population, often computed at the standard 95% level.
A measure of how reliable any statistical result is: see sampling error and statistical significance. (see also: statistic, Sample size, statistical evidence, statistical analysis, Sample size error, sample bias, Margin of error)
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