False precision

Known as: Misplaced precision, Spurious accuracy, Overprecision

False precision (also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision and spurious accuracy) occurs when numerical data are presented in a…

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2017

Techniques to detect the flame at an early stage are necessary in order to prevent the fire and minimize the damage. The flame…

2016

Penetration test is one of the most used SQL Injection Vulnerability (SQLIV) testing technology. Focused on the insufficiency of…

2013

Like a student cutting the electrical cord on his television to help him study, governments across the globe rely on commitment…

2010

Machine learning approaches have been successfully applied to many classification and prediction problems. One of the most…

2009

The ID3 algorithm forms the basis for many decision trees' algorithms and programs. Trees produced by this algorithm are known to…

2008

2006

At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned debate about whether the substantive…

2000

Many of today's Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) suffer from high rates of false positives [1]. False positives are a severe…

2000

In this paper, I develop two criticisms of L. Jonathan Cohen's influential a priori argument that human irrationality cannot be…

1999

As risk analysts learn and use more advanced statistical methods for characterizing uncertainty in their assessments, care must…