Upper bound (American Community Survey)

Represents the high end of the 90 percent confidence interval of an estimate from a sample survey. Statisticians calculate that they are 90 percent confident that the true number falls between the upper and lower bounds.

 

Related terms: Confidence interval (American Community Survey), Estimates (American Community Survey and Census 2000 Supplementary Survey), Lower bound (American Community Survey), Sample data

 

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