Different from traditional data-based fault diagnosis methods, the alternative approach is focused more on root cause diagnosis.
Or choose a new method, the alternative vote (AV).
As said before, the PROMETHEE II method ranks the alternatives by calculating the φ values.
Scoring methods prefer the alternative which has the highest score.
From Table 3, it can be observed that all the methods proposed the alternative 4 (W4) as the best alternative.
Even all loss function approach-based methods suggest the alternative 2 as the last preference.
It was stated that HPCE and HPLC data did not differ significantly and that the HPCE method was the alternative for the HPLC method.
We investigate the performance of the standard method and the alternative approach.
Briefly, the AML method formulates the alternative hypothesis in terms of the probability that a given SNP is associated with disease and a measured effect size.
Age adjustment to the EUROCARE-2 standard cancer populations was performed both by the traditional method and by the alternative method recently proposed by Brenner et al (2004).
