What is the Usefulness of Frequentist Confidence Intervals ?
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The following questions are discussed: " Why confidence intervals are a hot topic? " ; " Are confidence intervals objective? " ; " What is the usefulness of coverage? " ; " How to obtain useful information from experiment? " ; " The confidence level must be chosen independently from the knowledge of the data? " .
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تاریخ انتشار 2000