"Although we had no hard evidence," explained Marty Lipp, a spokesman, "the soft evidence led us to make a decision to let her go, because we can't and won't tolerate cheating on the tests".
Questions like that may still have to be made on the basis of the soft evidence that randomistas turn up their noses at.Randomistas rule?Mr Banerjee doubts whether randomistas and other development economists will ever get along.
Figure 9 shows an example of applying the soft evidence.
Fig. 9 Final posterior probability distributions with soft evidence.
Based on a user's past click behaviour, the probability of category ((C)) node with soft evidence ((C^{prime })) is calculated as follows: P(C = Headlines) = 0.15, and given 21% of soft evidence for Headlines variable.
Soft evidence is also employed to improve the prediction instead of using a user's local BN.
By applying the soft evidence in the BN, personalised posterior probability distributions of Category node can be generated.
When a user's past reading history is accumulated, the soft evidence method is used to predict the user's news interest.
The evidence preparation component provides the soft evidence, using a fuzzy partitioning method, that is used in the subsequent situation assessment component.
While similarities prevail, NICE appears to prefer that any kind of additional "soft" evidence be presented if it is expected to be of relevance from the patient/carer perspective.
Similarly, we introduce unobserved binary random variables z i j ∈{0, 1} representing whether read j is correctly aligned, and soft evidence in the form of probabilities which we represent by the observed mapping qualities r i j ∈[0, 1].
