The difference between "probable limits" and "confidence limits" is that the probable limits
a. focus on estimating where a particular score is likely to lie using a known population mean.
b. estimate the kinds of means that we expect.
c. try to set limits that have a .95 probability of containing the population mean.
d. There is no difference.
A
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