The phrase "avoid confidence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is advising against being overly confident or self-assured in a particular situation.
Example: "In negotiations, it's often wise to avoid confidence, as it can lead to underestimating the other party."
Alternatives: "refrain from overconfidence" or "steer clear of certainty.".
Because the failure rate might vary between deaneries, we also included a random effect for the postgraduate deanery of the general practice candidates in the model to prevent overprecision of estimates that is, avoiding confidence intervals that were overly narrow.
Mr. Harper moved to shut down Parliament in December last year to avoid a confidence vote that almost certainly would have defeated his government, which does not control a majority in the House of Commons.
On Thursday morning, as expected, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, seeking to avoid a confidence motion - which he would lose, given that his Conservative government only has a minority of the seats in the House of Commons - met with governor general Michaëlle Jean to ask her to prorogue, or end, the current session of Parliament.
If smaller networks are considered, then the results should be interpreted carefully to avoid over confidence.
The categories of variables were combined into only two to four categories to avoid large confidence intervals.
It is recommended that the exact method based on the binomial distribution be used, as confidence intervals near 100% need to be skewed (ie, the interval above and below the measured result is not equal) to avoid upper confidence limits '>100%'>100%
The initial symmetric prior matrix C ∈ ℝ n × n, 0 ≤ c i j ≤ 1 ∀ i, j was adjusted to create the final prior matrix W: (4) W ∈ ℝ n × n, w i j = { 9 10 c i j i ≠ j 1 i = j } This adjustment is necessary to avoid full confidence values (ones) in off-diagonal elements, thereby ensuring that the prior is soft evidence.
The challenge was clearly articulated by Harvey Fineberg in his analysis of the US government's response to the 1976 swine influenza scare (Fineberg, 2009): 'The first lesson is to avoid over-confidence about scientific insights.
What's more, when a sizable chunk of the population avoids taxes, confidence in the system diminishes.
With Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, having successfully persuaded the country's governor general to prorogue parliament, thereby avoiding a confidence vote, and with polls showing a majority of Canadians behind the prime minister, the Liberal-NDP coalithat thad had the country preparing for a possible "coup" last week is now all but dead.
