UNLABELLED The use of a qualitative scale for the Clock Drawing Test (CDT) may add information about the pattern of errors committed. OBJECTIVE To translate and adapt the Modified Qualitative Error Analysis of Rouleau into Brazilian Portuguese and to examine the pattern of errors according to educational level and cognitive profile. METHOD 180 adults (47-82 years) completed the CDT. Partici...

medication error (me) is the most common preventable cause of adverse drug events which negatively affects patient safety. inadequate, low-quality studies plus wide estimation variations in me from developing countries including iran, decreases the reliability of me evaluations. to clarify sources, underreporting reasons and preventive measures of mes, we reviewed iran current available literat...

To improve forecasting accuracy, combine forecasts derived from methods that differ substantially and draw from different sources of information. When feasible, use five or more methods. Use formal procedures to combine forecasts: An equal-weights rule offers a reasonable starting point, and a trimmed mean is desirable if you combine forecasts resulting from five or more methods. Use different ...

We describe a novel method for detecting errors in task-based human-computer (HC) dialogues by automatically deriving them from semantic tags. We examined 27 HC dialogues from the DARPA Communicator air travel domain, comparing user inputs to system responses to look for slot value discrepancies, both automatically and manually. For the automatic method, we labeled the dialogues with semantic t...

In this paper, the objective is to obtain an estimate of a particular module embedded in a dynamic network using noisy measurements of the internal variables. This is an extension of the errors-in-variables (EIV) framework to the case of dynamic networks. The consequence of measuring the variables with noise is that the prediction error identification methods no longer result in consistent esti...

Diagnostics for normal errors in regression typically utilize ordinary residuals, despite the failure of assumptions to validate their use. Case studies here show that such misuse may be critical. A remedy invokes recovered errors having the required properties, taking into account that such errors are closer to normality than are disturbances in the observations themselves. Simulation studies ...

• This paper aims to overview the numerous approaches that have been developed to estimate the parameters of the linear structural model. The linear structural model is an example of an errors in variables model, or measurement error model that has wide practical use. This paper brings together key concepts from a scattered literature to give an accessible account of existing work on this parti...