A Recognizance Was a Historic Practice That Enabled Convicted Offenders

question 41

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A recognizance was a historic practice that enabled convicted offenders to go unpunished if they agreed to refrain from further criminal behavior; sometimes a surety was required.

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure that tells us how much a set of numbers is spread out; it's the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, determined from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Standard Deviation

A gauge for the level of variability or disparity within a set of data points.

Interval Estimate

A type of estimate used in statistics that specifies a range within which a population parameter is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence.