A Distribution-Independent Bound on the Level of Confidence in the Result of a Measurement.
The Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality provides a quantitative bound on the level of confidence of a measurement with known combined standard uncertainty and assumed coverage factor. The result is independent of the detailed nature of the probability distribution that characterizes knowledge of the measurand.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001.
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level of confidence; measurement; probability; uncertainty