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.
Confidence intervals are also very useful for comparing means or proportions and can be used to assess whether there is a statistically meaningful difference. This is based on whether the confidence interval includes the null value (e.g., 0 for the difference in means, mean difference and risk difference or 1 for the relative risk and odds ratio).