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Equation 17 · Part 1 · Ten Ways an Agent Evaluation Can Mislead You Even When It's Working Correctly

Symbol ρ

ρ\rho
ρ\rho

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…evals [ 8 ] . The general relationship is the one long used in survey statistics: if a naive standard error assumes independence, and trials instead arrive in clusters of average size m with intraclass correlation ρ\rho within a cluster, the correctly inflated standard error is

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