Summarizing Test Grades Using Descriptive Statistical Tools

Test Oracles Using Statistical Methods

The oracle problem is addressed for random testing and testing of randomized software. The presented Statistical Oracle is a Heuristic Oracle using statistical methods, especially statistical tests. The Statistical Oracle is applicable in case there are explicit formulae for the mean, the distribution, and so on, of characteristics computable from the test result. However, the present paper onl...

Summarizing studies of diagnostic test performance.

In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, Brown et al. (1 ) report a metaanalysis of studies of the test characteristics of the latex turbidimetric D-dimer test for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. In this editorial, we will discuss the importance of conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic evidence and their contribution to the practice of evidence-based laboratory medicine. Evidence-based p...

Inferential Model Predictive Control Using Statistical Tools

Title of dissertation: INFERENTIAL MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL USING STATISTICAL TOOLS Kedar Himanshu Dave, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Thomas J. Mc Avoy Department of Chemical Engineering With an ever increasing emphasis on reducing costs and improving quality control, the application of advanced process control in the bulk chemical and petrochemical industry is...

Summarizing Documents Using Fractal Techniques

Summarizing Frequent Patterns Using Profiles

Frequent pattern mining is an important data mining problem with wide applications. The huge number of discovered frequent patterns pose great challenge for users to explore and understand them. It is desirable to accurately summarizing the set of frequent patterns into a small number of patterns or profiles so that users can easily explore them. In this paper, we employ a probability model to ...