confidence level
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confidence level
[′kän·fə·dəns ‚lev·əl] (industrial engineering)
The probability in acceptance sampling that the quality of accepted lots manufactured will be better than the rejectable quality level (RQL); 90% level indicates that accepted lots will be better than the RQL 90 times in 100.
(statistics)
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