If I could have justified a third evaluation (consistency must be monitored!), I would have.
On each evaluation, consistency of faeces was categorized into one of six categories; No faeces present (the rectal swab was dry and clean), watery, liquid, creamy, firm or solid (solid bulbs on the rectal swab).
Five supervised [classification tree, relief attribute evaluation, consistency subset, spectral feature selection and a custom principal components algorithm (Kira and Rendell, 1992; Liu and Setiono, 1996; Coppersmith et al., 1999; Rokach and Maimon, 2005; Zheng and Liu, 2007)]; and two unsupervised [brute force and standard principal component analysis (Boutsidis et al., 2008)] methods were used.
These include a systematic review of relevant individual studies, including an evaluation of data quality and study reliability; a systematic evaluation of consistency, specificity, and reproducibility of specific outcomes; an articulation and evaluation of hypotheses that bear on available data; and a comparison of how well each hypothesis describes the available data.
Yet the evaluation of consistency, plausibility and coherence as described by Bradford Hill requires the evaluation of all existing theories and knowledge.
Farsalinos, K. E., Yannovits, N., Sarri, T., Voudris, V. & Poulas, K. Protocol proposal for, and evaluation of, consistency in nicotine delivery from the liquid to the aerosol of electronic cigarettes atomizers: regulatory implications.
In addition to the evaluation of consistency improvements before and after bias correction, impacts of cross-mission biases on long-term trend estimations were also investigated.
In this paper, based on the existing MAGDM methods with linguistic information, three key evaluation indices, consistency, closeness and uniformity, are proposed to measure the results of MAGDM from different aspects.
Note that scores exceeding 7 indicate a substantial probability of malignancy (BI-RADS 4c/5) and thus require a careful evaluation of consistency between biopsy results and imaging if histopathological work-up reveals a benign diagnosis.
Evaluation of consistency between the two platforms was restricted to these matched measurements, which we call "genes" even though some splice isoforms may not be detected.
