Confidence Level/Examples

Examples of Confidence Levels

Common values of confidence levels are:

$90 \%$, corresponding to $\alpha = 0 \cdotp 10$

$95 \%$, corresponding to $\alpha = 0 \cdotp 05$

$99 \%$, corresponding to $\alpha = 0 \cdotp 01$

$99 \cdotp 9 \%$, corresponding to $\alpha = 0 \cdotp 001$

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): confidence level
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): confidence level