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=== Comparison with [[credible interval]]s === In many common settings, such as estimating the mean of a normal distribution with known variance,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bolstad |first=William M. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/122338165 |title=Introduction to Bayesian statistics |date=2007 |publisher=John Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-14115-1 |edition=2nd |location=Hoboken, N.J |pages=223β236 |oclc=122338165}}</ref> confidence intervals coincide with credible intervals under non-informative priors. In such cases, common misconceptions about confidence intervals (e.g. interpreting them as probability statements about the parameter) may yield practically correct conclusions.
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