Comparing Apples and Oranges in IoT Context: A Deep Dive Into Methods for Comparing IoT Platforms

Comparing apples and oranges ...

The most comprehensive and often-cited statistic about the U.S. economy is gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States. Estimates of GDP are the featured statistics in the National Income and Product Accounts, the construction of which involves the collection and aggregation of an immense amount of data. In the construction of real GDP, complica...

Comparing apples and oranges.

Comparing biological markers of Alzheimer's disease across blood fraction and platforms: Comparing apples to oranges.

INTRODUCTION This study investigated the comparability of potential Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers across blood fractions and assay platforms. METHODS Nonfasting serum and plasma samples from 300 participants (150 AD patients and 150 controls) were analyzed. Proteomic markers were obtained via electrochemiluminescence or Luminex technology. Comparisons were conducted via Pearson correlat...

Comparing apples and oranges: a randomised prospective study.

For many years the comparison of apples and oranges was thought to be impossible. Many authors use the analogy of the putative inability to compare apples and oranges as a means of scornfully reviewing the work of others. The titles of some recent publications 2 suggest an actual comparison of apples and oranges, but the authors do not, in fact, compare these two fruits. Our laboratory has been...

Comparing Apples and Oranges: Using Consensus Rankings for Decision Support

Conference program committees, graduate admissions committees, and even many social Web sites, are in the business of ranking content. However, they have too much content for everyone to review all of it. It therefore becomes necessary to order content based on partial information. Simply comparing numerical scores is error-prone because different reviewers see different portions of the content...