The role of bias on the part of the expert, identification of different types of bias, strategies to control bias and the confidence of the expert in his/her response are also presented and discussed.
This approach allows the degree of confidence of the expert to be quantified explicitly; it also allows inconsistencies in judgment to be reconciled within the bounds of the fuzzy numbers to generate reasonable values for the weighting factors.
(b) To determine the magnitude of better tolerability of MRI over biopsies; To assess interobserver reproducibility of T2 quantification with MRI and that of pathological grading of the biopsies; To assess, at the end of the study, the level of confidence of the expert physicians of each centre concerning the use of T2 quantification as an alternative to routine biopsies.
T2 values and histological grades from the first local interpretation and from the second centralised interpretation will be collected for this objective The level of confidence of the expert physicians of each centre will be assessed by the questionnaire using Likert scales.
The episode was the latest in a series of high-profile problems for the railroad — an ill-timed procession of failing infrastructure, employee errors and simple misfortune that has tested the confidence of riders, transit experts and elected officials.
As soon as it was off, the researcher spoke freely and with the confidence of a leading expert in the field.
On the one hand this brings us back to questions on the validity of the evaluation from a quality perspective as well as issues of experts' self-confidence, and, on the other hand the important second ambition of the HENVINET project: facilitating the use of knowledge in a policy context.
More generally, Serra conserves a battered modernist confidence in the collective genius of experts, a priestly class that confers meaning and direction on society.
The IF-THEN rules associate a crisp antecedent (e.g., whether the terrain is inhospitable) to a fuzzy consequent (e.g., a 'medium' or 'high' impact on the government's institutional weakness) and a confidence factor (e.g., number of experts who produced that rule).
For these traits we have maintained the differentiation among positive scores with the supposition that the use of the scale by the BVA/KC panel of experts embodies confidence in diagnosis as well as degree and that ignoring scoring categories may 'coarsen' the scale of analysis.
