Whether or not the authorities can make their charges stick, the case highlights a key truth about today's market prices: on a day-to-day level, they are determined as much by computer algorithms as by human judgment.
To predict HLA class II (DR) binding of human Lck‐derived peptides, the amino acid sequence of the human Lck protein was analyzed by computer algorithm (MULTIPRED), as reported previously.
Most of the reference episodes in the discrepant groups were classified by the computer algorithm as polymicrobial, but by the physicians' assessment as monomicrobial.
Just as the alphabetizing of names in a telephone book greatly facilitates their retrieval by a user, the sorting of list elements significantly reduces the search time required by a computer algorithm as compared to a search on an unsorted list.
The positive predictive value is an ideal measure under this circumstance, as it represents the proportion of true cases among those identified by the computer algorithm as potential cases.
Thus all contacts were categorised, initially by computer algorithm and backed up by a clinical panel, as: necessary and sufficient insufficient (although necessary) or unnecessary.
The 12 infection syndromes classified as primary by computer algorithm and secondary by investigator review were lower respiratory tract (n = 5, 42%), intraabdominal (n = 3, 25%), skin or soft tissue (n = 2, 17%), or surgical site (n = 2, 17%); no urinary tract infection was misclassified as a primary bloodstream infection by computer algorithm.
Verbal autopsy could be more widely used if interpretation by computer algorithm could be relied on.
All measures were scored in a masked manner by computer algorithm.
In the USA, this subject is being addressed by computer algorithms such as the Potentially Preventable Complications and the Potentially Preventable Readmissions software.
