There is a clear unmet need for further multicenter studies, with standardized methodologies, consistent dosing and larger cohorts to improve the data available on the efficacy and safety of inhaled therapy.
The third day then looked at geospatial technologies available to improve data for CSA monitoring, presented by Hexagon, the European Space Agency and FAO.
Such filtering appears largely to be experiment independent, suggesting it could be retroactively applied to improve data from thousands of currently available data sets.
Meanwhile however, improving data and optimisation of the available techniques have allowed a realistic portrayal of the efficacy and risks of the most commonly used methods as well as recommendations for the use of the techniques alone or in combination.
Data is growing incredibly fast — by one account, it is more than doubling every two years — and the authors of this book argue that as storage costs plummet and algorithms improve, data-crunching techniques, once available only to spy agencies, research labs and gigantic companies, are becoming increasingly democratized.
More rigorous reporting guidelines are needed to improve the quality of data available for use in comparisons of outcomes (or meta-analyses) of multiple studies.
But at the Treasury committee this morning, the chancellor outlined a number of measures being taken to ensure his cuts would be achieved, including improving the financial performance data available, reducing costly quangos, and introducing greater transparency into public expenditure, so allowing "a nation of auditors" – ie the general public – to check where their money was going.
The tool is able to learn iteratively in order to further refine forecasts as the quality of data available improves.
To improve the completeness of data available for analysis, service members with fewer than 30 days of continuous deployment as of the reference date were also excluded.
Marketers and adverting experts agreed that ComScore's approach ultimately improves the quality of the data available.
