How “wide” you have to cast your “net” to be sure of capturing the true population parameter. If my estimate of defects is 10%, I might also say that my 95% Confidence Interval is plus or minus 2%, meaning that odds are 95 out of 100 hundred that the true population parameter is somewhere between 8 and 12%.
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