Confidence Limit
Student’s
t
-factors
are given in tables
for different probabilities.
(Note:
The
table in your book is on
page 56
.)
where
t
is
Student’s
t
-factor
.
At the
90 %
confidence limit
, 90 times out of 100 the true value will be within
±1.64
s
of the experimental results.
The confidence limit defines an interval about the average that most likely contains
m
.