Defined term · Evidence assessment
Very low certainty
The Institute has very little confidence in the effect estimate. In this document set a very low rating most often reflects an absence of controlled human evidence rather than the presence of…
§1Very low certainty
§1.2Category
Evidence assessment — Terms describing how the Institute judges and reports the strength of evidence.
§1.3Related terms
- Absence of evidence — A state in which no study adequate to answer a question has been identified. The Institute records an absence of evidence as distinct from evidence of absence: the first…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-005 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/very-low-certainty/ · retrieved 30 July 2026