From e48b6fc1ca5c8c7e4019d830cbca41711c86f788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul P.H. Wilson" Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 15:40:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] small language typo --- docs/source/methods/tallies.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/source/methods/tallies.rst b/docs/source/methods/tallies.rst index d67584622c..dc3a63decf 100644 --- a/docs/source/methods/tallies.rst +++ b/docs/source/methods/tallies.rst @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Confidence Intervals While the sample variance and standard deviation gives us some idea about the variability of the estimate of the mean of whatever quantities we've tallied, it does not help us interpret how confidence we should be in the results. To -quantity the reliability of our estimates, we can use `confidence intervals`_ +quantify the reliability of our estimates, we can use `confidence intervals`_ based on the calculated sample variance. A :math:`1-\alpha` confidence interval for a population parameter is defined as