Simple Rules for Controlling Step Size in Up‐Down Testing

rules for performing step in the reference process

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Simple rules govern finite-size effects in scale-free networks

We give an intuitive though general explanation of the finitesize effect in scale-free networks in terms of the degree distribution of the starting network. This result clarifies the relevance of the starting network in the final degree distribution. We use two different approaches: the deterministic meanfield approximation used by Barabási and Albert (but taking into account the nodes of the s...

Design of Optimum Simple Step-Stress Accelerated Life Testing Plans

Accelerated life testing (ALT) is widely conducted to obtain failure-time data in a much shorter time and to make inference about reliability at normal conditions. The accuracy of the reliability prediction is dependent on well-designed ALT plans. A stepstress ALT allows the test condition to change at a given time or upon the occurrence of a specified number of failures. In this paper, we prop...

Ten Simple Rules for Reviewers

Last summer, the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology prompted an Editorial, ‘‘Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published’’ [1]. The interest in that piece (it has been downloaded 14,880 times thus far) prompted ‘‘Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Grant’’ [2]. With this third contribution, the ‘‘Ten Rules’’ series would seem to be established, and more rules for diffe...

A Short Course in Antivirus Software Testing: Seven Simple Rules for Evaluating Tests