The purpose of this article was to suggest that one source of confidence intervals has been neglected in statistical texts written for students in the social sciences. The neglected source is a many-populations model. Differences in interpretations of the one-population and many-populations intervals were presented, along with the suggestion that the many-populations model reflects more adequately the activities involved in the application of estimation procedures.
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