Metrics: A profusion of measures

A profusion of controls

YONE who teaches knows there are two questions to steer clear of on exams: the one about evolution, to which there is no certifiable answer; and the one about gene control, to which every conceivable answer is correct. Or so it seems at times. The profusion of transcriptional and posttranscriptional controls that have emerged in recent years can be simplified by recognizing categories. One cate...

Information fusion with ProFusion

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has led to a miniexplosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led to the development of ProFusion, a meta search engine. Educators, like other users, do not have the time to evaluate multiple search engines to knowledgeably select the best for their uses. Nor do they have the time to...

Ranking Metrics and Evaluation Measures

In this work, we present a general guideline to establish the relation between a distribution model and its corresponding similarity estimation. A rich set of distance metrics, such as Harmonic distance and Geometric distance, is derived according to Maximum Likelihood theory. These metrics can provide a more accurate model than the conventional Euclidean distance and Manhattan distance. Becaus...

Celia Lowe : Wild Profusion

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Object recognition via information-theoretic measures/metrics