margin of error
statistics
Also known as: tolerance limit
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public opinion polls
- In public opinion: Size and precision
…statistical reliability (also known as margin of error or tolerance limit) is the same for a smaller country such as Trinidad and Tobago (with a population less than 1.4 million) as it is for China (the most populous country in the world)—so long as the quantity and locations of sampling…
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sampling
- In statistics: Estimation of a population mean
96σ/Square root of√n is often called the margin of error for the estimate. The quantity σ/Square root of√n is the standard error, and 1.96 is the number of standard errors from the mean necessary to include 95% of the values in a normal distribution. The interpretation of a 95% confidence interval is that 95%…
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