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 provide more information than point estimates. Confidence intervals for means are intervals constructed using a procedure (presented in the next section) that will contain the population mean a specified proportion of the time, typically either 95% or 99% of the time.