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• CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
  
  The degree of certainty that an event will fall outside of boundaries on a distribution. For a normal distribution, boundaries set at two standard deviations from the mean create approximately 95 percent confidence intervals. In other words, only 5 percent of the events will be smaller or larger than the boundary amounts. Often applied to VaR measures of risk.
  
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