Equation 22 · Part 2 · Measuring AI Agent Reliability: What the Evidence Actually Supports
Symbol z_α/2
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z_α/2 occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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Even when a team does report a rate rather than a single anecdote, a rate on its own understates how uncertain that number is. Evan Miller’s statistical treatment of language-model evaluation makes an argument borrowed from experimental science generally: an evaluation score is an estimate drawn from a finite, noisy sample, not a fact about the system, and it should be reported the way any other science reports a measurement — with an uncertainty attached [ 4 ] . His worked illustration is a useful gut check on how much data “enough” actually requires. To reliably detect an absolute difference of three percentage points between two systems, with conventional statistical standards for false…
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