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Defined term · Evidence assessment

Imprecision

A confidence interval wide enough that its ends would support different decisions, or an event count too small to constrain the estimate. Assessed against a decision threshold rather than against…

Document identifier
CEI-GT-012
Series
Defined term
Version
1.0
Published
30 Jul 2026
Last reviewed
30 Jul 2026
Certainty
Not rated

§1Imprecision

§1.2Category

Evidence assessment — Terms describing how the Institute judges and reports the strength of evidence.

§1.3Related terms

  • Confidence interval — A range constructed so that, over repeated experiments, the stated proportion of such ranges would contain the true value. The Institute reports the interval alongside…
  • Optimal information size — The number of participants or events a body of evidence would require to be as informative as an adequately powered single trial. Used by the Institute in assessing…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-012 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/imprecision/ · retrieved 30 July 2026
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