Its more of a religious reason... Hinduism believes that the soul and body are separate ... While some other religions believe that the soul and body are doubles ... if the body is hurt, the soul is hurt ...
DEFINITION of 'Confidence Interval'. A term used in inferential statistics that measures the probability that a population parameter will fall between two set values. The confidence interval can take any number of probabilities, with the most common being 95% or 99%. Next Up.
What are confidence intervals? How do we form a confidence interval? The purpose of taking a random sample from a lot or population and computing a statistic, such as the mean from the data, is to approximate the mean of the population. How well the sample statistic estimates the underlying population value is always an issue.