Equation 22 · Part 6 · Measuring AI Agent Reliability: What the Evidence Actually Supports
addition
addition
What this part means
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
Its job in the formula
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
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The passage around this formula
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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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.
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