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Hi, I feel confused when discussing this issue related to confidence intervals. Assume we have two random variables: X and Y. We construct a 95%-confidence interval of the mean of X and Y. The two intervals are denoted: CI(X) and CI(Y). What is the statistical meaning of the area/region (rectangle) defined by the cartesian product of CI(X) and CI(Y)? Suppose that X and Y are the random output of two stochastic processes ("Cost" and "Service Level" for example). The random parameter of these two processes are the customers' demand denoted D, which follows a known probability distribution. In order to simulate X and Y, someone can generate many demands' samples {d(1), d(2),..., d(n)) and for each d(i), just compute the resulting cost and service level responses. Does this simulation process lead to independent X-Y samples? I developed a simulation script to test empirically if the definition of "confidence region" defined by two CIs is meaningful. The result is positive! I took two normal random variables X and Y with a known means mX and mY. I sampled X and Y more than 1000 times. Each time i compute the two Confidence intervals CI(X) and CI(Y) of the sample means. Then, using Excel, i calculated the number of times the the true means mX and mY are inside the confidence region CI(X) - CI(Y). I repeated this many times. I always obtain a correct probability of being inside the region, respecting the following formula: ConfidenceRegionLevel(X, Y) = ConfidenceLevel(CI(X)) x ConfidenceLevel(CI(Y)) = (1 - alpha)^2 That is, i get approximately 89.5% region confidence level, when i use two a=95% CIs. Thank you in advance.