Referrals by an external agency, on the other hand, may be associated with a higher level of coercion, and even if where the approval of the parents is required, the parents' support for and confidence in the care provided may not be as strong as if the parents had themselves initiated the referral.
The bottom panel of Fig. 2 also shows the likelihood support for the estimates as confidence bounds (red shading).
In data mining, currently the thresholds for the support and the confidence are set arbitrarily by users, so that different sets of support and confidence will lead to different results.
Sequential rules [14, 18, 21, 22] are "if-then rules" with two measures which quantify the support and the confidence of the rule for a given sequence database.
Of the 37 Muslim members of parliament, 26 are in parties that have declared their support to the government for the confidence vote, while 11 are with anti-deal parties.
During the meeting, there was little support for a "confidence and supply" deal with the Tories, which would see the Liberal Democrats allow Mr Cameron to pass his Queen's Speech through the Commons.
For the topic discovery experiment, we changed the minimum support values and the confidence for frequent pattern mining, which results in two set of topics (two topic datasets).
Equity investors were finding support for their confidence in a report by the Institute for Supply Management that showed increased activity in the manufacturing sector in December.
Ian Stewart, chief economist at consultancy Deloitte, said the latest inflation figures pointed to more support for consumer confidence.
