AmplitudeEstimation.confidence_interval

AmplitudeEstimation.confidence_interval(alpha, kind='likelihood_ratio')[source]

Compute the (1 - alpha) confidence interval.

Parameters

  • alpha (float) – Confidence level: compute the (1 - alpha) confidence interval.

  • kind (str) – The method to compute the confidence interval, can be ‘fisher’, ‘observed_fisher’ or ‘likelihood_ratio’ (default)

Return type

List[float]

Returns

The (1 - alpha) confidence interval of the specified kind.

Raises

  • AquaError – If ‘mle’ is not in self._ret.keys() (i.e. run was not called yet).

  • NotImplementedError – If the confidence interval method kind is not implemented.