Confidence score
A numerical estimate associated with a prediction or classification.
What Confidence score does not show
Unless calibrated and scoped, it is not a literal probability that the answer is true.
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How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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Questions about Confidence score
What is Confidence score?
A numerical estimate associated with a prediction or classification.
What does Confidence score not show or guarantee?
Unless calibrated and scoped, it is not a literal probability that the answer is true.
Which area of the glossary does Confidence score belong to?
Measurement and evaluation: How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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