Comparing apples and oranges

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.

Carotenoids, immunity, and sexual selection: comparing apples and oranges?

Endler (1980) suggested that in a carotenoid-poor environment, carotenoid-dependent sexual ornaments indicate foraging ability, and hence, they can be used by females to gauge male quality. This idea led researchers to view female mate choice from a fresh perspective, and it gained a fair level of acceptance (Kodric-Brown 1989; Milinski and Bakker 1990; Houde and Torio 1992; Frischknecht 1993);...

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 - Measuring Differences between Data Mining Results

Deciding whether the results of two different mining algorithms provide significantly different information is an important open problem in exploratory data mining. Whether the goal is to select the most informative result for analysis, or decide which mining approach will likely provide the most novel insight, it is essential that we can tell how different the information is that two results p...