Further Reflections on Archeological Interpretation

Further reflections on TREC

The paper reviews the TREC Programme up to TREC-6 (1997), considering the test results, the substantive ®ndings for IR that follow and the lessons TREC o€ers for IR evaluation. The paper focuses on the ad hoc retrieval task, with discussion of other test tracks as appropriate. The paper summarises the structure of the TREC work and analyses the experimental data in some detail. The analysis of ...

Further Reflections on the Guillotine

Highway spotters and traffic controllers: further reflections on complexity.

Norman’s essay on ‘Chaos, complexity and complicatedness’ in this issue of Medical Education offers an eloquent description of the reductionist position in medical education. The author’s argument is articulate and provides an impressive set of elaborations and clarifications regarding several scientific concepts that I and others have invoked in recent discussions on the epistemologies of medi...

A further note on the interpretation of ridit analysis.

Ridit analysis has been used by a variety of investigators (e.g., 1-5) and has appeared in a t least one textbook (6). Bross (7) introduced the technique of ridit analysis and Kantor et a1 (8) showed the relationship between the average ridit value and a quantile rank. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the remark made by Bross (7) that "[ridit analysis is] closely related to distri...

Further insight into data interpretation and conclusions

I read with great interest the paper by Roche and Wang entitled “Factors associatedwith a diabetes diagnosis and late diabetes diagnosis for males and females” in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology, 2014, Vol. 1(3):77–84. Authors identified some of the factors related to diabetes and early/late diabetes diagnosis from extremely complex process of clinical, demographic, soci...