A 95% confidence interval will always lead to the same conclusion as a significance test using a significance level of = .

A 95% confidence interval corresponds to a two-sided significance test at the 5% significance level (α = 0.05). The test rejects the null hypothesis when its hypothesized value falls outside the interval, matching the interval’s conclusion. A one-sided test does not generally have this same correspondence.

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