Gold standards and fool's gold

"Gold standards" for vision testing.

Gold Standards?: State Standards Reform and Student Achievement∗

Proponents of the recent and widely adopted Common Core State Standards argue that high quality curricular standards are critical to students’ educational success. Little clear evidence exists, however, linking the quality of such standards to student achievement. I remedy this by connecting data on state-level student achievement from 1994-2011 with measures of the quality of states’ curricula...

Bayesian integration of networks without gold standards

MOTIVATION Biological experiments give insight into networks of processes inside a cell, but are subject to error and uncertainty. However, due to the overlap between the large number of experiments reported in public databases it is possible to assess the chances of individual observations being correct. In order to do so, existing methods rely on high-quality 'gold standard' reference network...

The Gold Standards Framework Summary of Evaluations

The aim of this paper is to provide a summary of GSF evaluations, audit reports and research studies that we are currently aware of, to inform ongoing spread, development and further research of the Gold Standards Framework, as part of the NHS End of Life Care Programme. In the light of the current changes within the NHS, further issues are arising related to end of life care, community palliat...

Centroids: Gold standards with distributional variations

Motivation: Gold Standards for named entities are, ironically, not standard themselves. Some specify the “one perfect annotation”. Others specify “perfectly good alternatives”. The concept of Silver standard is relatively new. The objective is consensus rather than perfection. How should the two concepts be best represented and related? Approach: We examine several Biomedical Gold Standards and...