Sentence examples for confidence widened from inspiring English sources

First, expressions of particularly high confidence rarely proved to be warranted; as confidence increased, the gap between accuracy and confidence widened.

France paid 2.8 percent to sell bonds maturing in July 2016, up from the 2.3 percent it paid in October, and the spread between French and German 10-year bond yields, a measure of market confidence, widened to more than two percentage points, the widest since the creation of the euro more than a decade ago.

Also the confidence intervals widened considerably.

Estimates of association dropped toward 1.0 or confidence limits widened considerably at 7- to 9-day moving averages (not shown).

When we further stratified participants into light and heavy smokers, the direction of the point estimates for the BMI categories remained the same, although the confidence intervals widened.

We also adjusted the treatment difference for age and gender but the point estimates did not change considerably - only the confidence intervals widened.

The FEV1 decline associated with personal PM2.5 decreased from −0.06 to −0.05, and the confidence band widened, when this subject was excluded.

The coefficients of the population mixing variable were somewhat smoothed by the introduction in the model of extra-Poisson variation (2) and the confidence intervals widened slightly (Table 4).

However, the confidence interval widened after bias-adjustment, which is due to incorporating the assessors' uncertainty regarding the size of the biases, and implies that higher quality studies are required.

Further adjustment for intakes of vitamin C, vitamin E, β-carotene, folate, vitamin B6, and magnesium did not materially change the results, although the confidence interval widened (RR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.53 1.08).

These values would be roughly equivalent to the fibre in four to six portions of vegetables, 9 but again, data became sparse at higher intakes and confidence intervals widened (web figs 8B and 8D).