degree of confidence
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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confidence
noun
uk/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/us/ˈkɑːn.fə.dəns/
the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or ...
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(Definition ofdegreeandconfidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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After introducing a distinction between 'degree of confirmation' and 'degreeofconfidence', he offers an anti-realist gloss of the connection between theories and models.
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The detail of the system modelling during these preliminary stages must be commensurate with thedegreeofconfidencein the available data.
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But how can we actually make the relevant strength comparisons between the current problem situation and a precedent case with anydegreeofconfidence?
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In order for cooperation to be rational, participants must have a certaindegreeofconfidencein each other's competence to complete their assigned tasks.
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Question 33-1, the question on making use of connections with officials to elicit government permit, measures thedegreeofconfidencein official institutions.
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Whilst this approach will provide the user with adegreeofconfidenceregarding the discoveries it falls far short of the notion of 'knowledge discovery'.
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The model not only shows which tasks affect the component, but also thedegreeofconfidencecontributed by different activities within the design process.
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The persistence of these findings suggests a highdegreeofconfidencein them.
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Question 8 is meant to measure thedegreeofconfidencein officials of official institutions.
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Some of the chapters will require a reasonabledegreeofconfidencein dealing with mathematical ideas and notation.
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Thedegreeofconfidencerequired by a regulatory system to avoid either type of error is clearly a crucial policy choice.
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Nevertheless, it can be said with a fairdegreeofconfidencethat these attempts at drainage were largely ineffective.
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But it takes adegreeofconfidence, and a willingness to shoulder substantial financial risk, to do this.
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These results give us a fairly highdegreeofconfidencethat the predicted biomass stock is a good proxy for actual biomass stock.
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The substantial body of data on normal consonant acquisition allows us to apply this differentiation to corresponding disordered data with somedegreeofconfidence.
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The subject was required to identify each item as old/new, name the source, and state thedegreeofconfidencefor the source attribution.
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In summary, while uncertainties in process descriptions may be eliminated within a certain degreeofconfidence, in data descriptions, these are difficult to eliminate because of their intrinsic nature.
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Internal validity focuses on thedegreeofconfidencethat the treatment, and no other factors, caused the change in the maladaptive outcomes.
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