Achieving 90% specificity overall in identifying typical HIV/AIDS-related deaths with the InterVA-4 model, although blinding the model to sero-status, is an important achievement.
In cheminformatics, data are considered to be of external nature if they are blinded during model development (i.e. they are external w.r.t. the sample that was used for model development).
But, Mr. Bleich noted, "Unlike the United States, Britain, or even the Netherlands, France maintains a 'color-blind' model of public policy".
As input for the blind modelling, each modeller had to select a range of different input data that included a heat release rate curve and ignition properties for each combustible item.
The specific focus of this paper is to describe what choices the different modellers made when selecting the different input data for the blind modelling exercise.
This paper describes a programme of blind modelling and benchmarking experiments that was part of a larger collaborative research project.
The content-blind models use the same set of coefficients for all contents (see rows "HD all" and "SD all" in Tables 4 and 5).
By definition, the content-blind models use the same set of coefficients for all contents while the content-aware models have one set of coefficients per content (see Tables 4 and 5).
Since the audio- and video-quality models are not content-dependent, the second part of Tables 7 and 8 only shows the performance numbers for the content-blind models and.
The user decision-making in this blind modelling and experimental benchmarking programme provides an illustration of one of the many aspects of the significant subjectivity that is likely to occur in everyday performance-based fire safety engineering (PBFSE).
The objective for the blind modelling was to predict both the ignition times for each of the secondary items, as well as the heat release rate for the compartment.
