Slot: confidenceLevel

A qualitative term describing the degree of confidence held by the creator of the information entity, that the information it represents is true (e.g. 'high confidence', 'likely true', 'low confidence').

URI: vaspec:InformationEntity_confidenceLevel

Domain and Range

InformationEntity → _0..1 Coding

Parents

• is_a: confidenceLevel

Children

Used by

• DataItem
• DataSet
• Document
• EvidenceLine
• InformationEntity
• Method
• Statement
• StudyResult

Other properties

Comments:		What a confidence level or score reflects may vary depending on the type of InformationEntity it describes. For Statements, it may reflect an agent's confidence that the statement asserts a proposition that is true. For a DataItem, its may reflect an agent's confidence that the value is an accurate reflection of the reality it measures or describes. For an Image, this may reflect the agent's confidence that it accurately represents the subject it depicts.