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Equation 14 · Part 8 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in AI Agent Evaluation and Reliability

Numerator: 1

p^=1n∑i=1n1[trial i succeeded],\hat{p} = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} \mathbb{1}[\text{trial } i \text{ succeeded}],
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What this part means

The complete quantity above the fraction bar.

Its job in the formula

1 occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

The passage around this formula

Write the naive estimate over n independent trials as p^=1n∑i=1n1[trial i succeeded]\hat{p} = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} \mathbb{1}[\text{trial } i \text{ succeeded}]. and contrast it with a severity-weighted version,

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Learn the underlying idea

A fraction a/b means a divided by b. The top number is the numerator; the bottom number is the denominator, and it cannot be zero.

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