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Equation 6 · Part 1 · Building a Custom Evaluation Suite for a Production Agent

Symbol z_α/2

zα/2≈1.96z_{\alpha/2} \approx 1.96
zα/2z_{\alpha/2}

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z_α/2 is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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z_α/2 is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

Plugging in a fairly ordinary case — a baseline pass rate of 70 percent, a minimum shift worth caring about of 10 percentage points, a 5 percent significance level, and 80 percent power — gives zα/2z_{\alpha/2} ≈\approx 1.96 and zβz_{\beta} ≈\approx 0.84 , and the formula returns roughly 330 trials per configuration. That number is the whole argument for treating a single failed run, or even three failed runs out of five, with real suspicion rather than as proof of a regression: at ordinary…

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