001package org.biopax.paxtools.model.level2; 002 003/** 004 * Confidence that the containing instance actually occurs or exists in vivo, 005 * usually a statistical measure. The xref must contain at least on publication 006 * that describes the method used to determine the confidence. There is 007 * currently no standard way of describing confidence values, so any string is 008 * valid for the confidence value. In the future, a controlled vocabulary of 009 * accepted confidence values could become available, in which case it will 010 * likely be adopted for use here to describe the value. 011 * 012 * <b>Examples:</b> The statistical significance of a result, e.g. "p<0.05". 013 */ 014public interface confidence extends utilityClass, XReferrable 015{ 016 017 /** 018 * The value of the confidence measure. 019 * @return A string representation of the confidence value 020 */ 021 String getCONFIDENCE_VALUE(); 022 023 /** 024 * The value of the confidence measure. 025 * @param CONFIDENCE_VALUE to be set. 026 */ 027 void setCONFIDENCE_VALUE(String CONFIDENCE_VALUE); 028}