If that's too abstract, I think that when governments amass this kind of information and unleash upon it computer algorithms that are trying to make predictions and judgments -- you know, who's dangerous, who might be a terrorist, who should we be more worried about?
The area under the curve (AUCs) of the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC), and odds ratios (OR) were calculated to quantify the accuracy of both NGAL and clinician judgment, individually and combined, in the prediction and assessment of AKI.
And it is precisely in disturbed times that economists can and sometimes do offer dramatically better predictions and policy judgments than what we normally consider wise men.
This methodology will produce misleading predictions and evidence judgments about the course of natural selection, however, if groups (in some contexts) or genes (in other contexts) are also evolutionary individuals, as many have argued.
Although there are semantic decisions to be made about how these terms will be used, those uses should also be assessed in part by the plausibility of the implications they hold for scientific methodology, evidence judgments, and prediction and explanation.
At present, UR prediction depends mostly on screening of clinical factors, which subjects to variations associated with the experience and judgment of clinicians.
Surgical mastery is about familiarity and judgment.
The Circle of Doing, Knowledge, and Judgment.
Real-world answer for comparison and judgment.
But for a few days in May, Harold Camping and the folks at Family Radio held the world's attention with the bold, insane, masterfully incompetent prediction that Judgment Day was upon us.
