This technique is the gold standard in computer security for one-way correlation of data.
The observed correlation between PMD measured by the current gold standard, a computer-assisted semi-automatic thresholding method named Cumulus, and the automated thresholding method used here was (r = 0.88; 95% CI, 0.87 to 0.89) in an external test set [ 14].
"It is the new gold standard in notebook computers," Apple's SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller said.
Yet as Booz Allen profits handsomely from its worldwide expansion, Mr. McConnell and other executives of the government contractor — which sells itself as the gold standard in protecting classified computer systems and boasts that half its 25,000 employees have Top Secret clearances — have a lot of questions to answer.
Table 5 compares the "gold standard" review to the computer algorithms.
While face-to-face surveys are considered the gold standard of interviewing techniques, computer-assisted telephone interviewing is often preferred for cost and convenience.
In a study using the physicians' supplementary variables as the gold standard, we assessed the validity of computer-derived algorithms for contamination versus bacteremic episodes, and among episodes of bacteremia, their acquisition (ie, community, health care-related, or nosocomial) and whether they were monomicrobial or polymicrobial.
To compare the computer algorithms to the "gold standard" assessment of nursing home residence at the month level, a month from each sample subject was randomly selected to report percent agreement, sensitivity, specificity and predictive values.
An additional problem in validating detection techniques is the lack of a gold standard for determining the relevance of a computer-detected cluster.
SOFA scores generated by the computer were compared with the gold standard to assess accuracy.
