Re:Data scientists need to learn about significant digits
by slooonz on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:53AM
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> Yes, you have 10,000 samples and properly classified 5,124 of them so your mathematical precision is 0.5124
That’s the point. That’s the correct usage of significant figures. Your inputs have significant figures ; it determines exactly the significant figures of your output. Significant figures have nothing to do with things like sampling variance.
What you’re looking for is not significant figures, it’s confidence intervals.
That’s the point. That’s the correct usage of significant figures. Your inputs have significant figures ; it determines exactly the significant figures of your output. Significant figures have nothing to do with things like sampling variance.
What you’re looking for is not significant figures, it’s confidence intervals.