Equation 7 · Part 4 · Measuring AI Agent Reliability: What the Evidence Actually Supports
Symbol c
What this part means
c occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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c occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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…estimate but a high-variance one, since it throws away information every time you happen to generate more or fewer than k samples. Their fix was to over-sample: draw n total samples per task, observe how many of them, c , actually pass, and then compute the exact probability that a random draw of k items from those n would contain at least one success [ 2 ] . That combinatorial form is the unbiased estimator: it uses every one of the n observed outcomes rather than discarding some of them, and it has materially…
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