HOW TO ANALYZE DATA THROUGH MODELING

How to Analyze Modeling Approach Comparison Criteria

One possible final goal of defining a set of criteria to define modeling approaches [1] is to help people, especially from industry, picking up the good approaches or artifacts according to their own purpose. The authors of the comparison criteria have managed to get several different assessments made by defenders of particular modeling approaches. From our point of view the experiment is matur...

How to appropriately analyze ordinal scale data?

How to Analyze Paired Comparison Data

Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment provides a method to convert subjective paired comparisons into one-dimensional quality scores. Applications include judging quality of different image reconstructions, or different products, or different web search results, etc. This tutorial covers the popular Thurstone-Mosteller Case V model and the Bradley-Terry logistic variant. We describe three app...

How to Analyze Nanomaterials ?

Nanotechnology has a great influence on modern technology, just like the development of DNA profiling on biotechnology in the past 50 years. Because of applying knowledge and techniques from natural science, forensic science aims to identify, individualize and evaluate evidence. Evidence will then be used to reconstruct crime scenes, guide investigations and bring criminals to justice. Nanotech...

How to Analyze Data for Age Discrimination in Layoff Situations

HR managers are directly involved in downsizing a workforce, yet most are unfamiliar with the statistical computations plaintiffs refer to in discrimination cases against their organizations. Plaintiffs use these statistics and procedures to challenge the effect of personnel layoff decisions, either with individual or class-wide discrimination challenges. HR managers who understand how to group...