Confidence limit Health Dictionary

A range of values for a variable of interest, e.g. a rate, constructed so that this range has a specified probability of including the true value of the variable. The specified probability is called the confidence level, and the end points of the confidence interval are called the confidence limits.... confidence interval

A sense of assurance, faith or trust in a person, thing or oneself.... confidence

adj. describing a condition that runs a predicted course and is unaffected by any treatment.... self-limiting

adj. describing characteristics that are expressed differently in the two sexes but are controlled by genes not on the sex chromosomes, e.g. baldness in men.... sex-limited