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One of these is the systematic construction of confidence regions for functional parameters. This work is concerned with developing, understanding and visualizing such regions. We provide a general strategy for constructing confidence regions in a real separable Hilbert space by using hyperellipsoids and hyper-rectangles. We then propose specific implementations which work especially well in practice. They provide powerful hypothesis tests and useful visualization tools without relying on simulation. We also demonstrate the negative result that nearly all regions, including our own, have zero coverage when working with empirical covariances. To overcome this challenge we propose a new paradigm for evaluating confidence regions by showing that the distance between an estimated region and the desired region (with proper coverage) tends to 0 faster than the regions shrink to a point. We call this phenomena ghosting and refer to the empirical regions as ghost regions. 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