confidence
- noun
- /ˈkɒnfɪdəns/
- Specialized
- Nakagawa recommended reporting effect sizes and the confidence intervals for effect sizes to interpret non-significant results.
- confidence interval
- confidence interval (CI)
- confidence level
We can we can trace it with some measure of confidence to Neanderthals.
- We can we can trace it with some measure of confidence to Neanderthals.
- How many people's confidence interval includes that number?
- And so there are wide confidence limits around that.
- Could be there's not a lot of confidence in that number.
- There is an item in there under settings for voice control confidence threshold.
- What's your prediction about when you'll be truly surprised and what's the confidence interval on that?
- So how do you increase your confidence percentage with proof?
Examples
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So in both of these problems, we're going to find confidence intervals for the mean.
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The exact number of answers taken, or the confidence threshold, are parameters that must be tuned.
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Things like what is the actual confidence level I have that an effect is real.
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What is the confidence rate?
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So how do you increase your confidence percentage with proof?
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How can we know what level of confidence we ought to have in a model's output?
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However, the consensus that exists for the most commonly used plants provides confidence in their identification.
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Analysis revealed that all children were within 95% confidence intervals of the international norms.
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At this return rate and a 95% confidence level, our calculated confidence interval was 4.44.
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The model's accuracy gives a confidence level of 90% that the prediction is correct.
Synonyms
The chance that something will happen, often shown as a number or percent
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
A clear show of support by a group, often decided by a formal ballot
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confidence comes from the Latin parts con- ('with') and fidere ('to trust'), the same root as confide. In science and statistics this idea of 'trust' became a number, so a confidence score shows how much 'certainty' or trust we have in a result.