I found the word in "Better binomial confidence intervals" (J.F.Reed, J Mod App Stat MethJ. From the context, I think it is a typo or Freudian slip, as the apparent meaning was suboptimal. The comment refers to a graph showing that a Wald-estimate 95% confidence interval actually covers between 80 and 97% over most of the domain.
Chat with our AI personalities
"Numeral" is another term for "number."
A term is a number or the product of a number and variable(s).
Mean
the mean
the base.