Can Specification Searches Be Useful for Hypothesis Generation?

Can Specification Searches Be Useful for Hypothesis Generation?

Teaching Hypothesis Testing . Can it Still be Useful ?

Hypothesis testing have been with us for more than a century, but has recently come under attack as less useful. It is important that statistics is taught in a way that makes students aware of possible misuse of the methods and how to avoid such misuse. Recently, statistics has become a part of the curriculum in secondary schools (16-18) in Norway, and this has not been without controversy. One...

Can Spurious States Be Useful?

Michel e C eccarelli Isti t uto di Ri cerca sui Sist emi In form atici Perelleli, IR SIP-CNR 80125 Nap oli, It aly Ab stract. Additive automata are analyzed and used as associative memories. Th eir storage capacity is comput ed as well as the attrac tion basin of each memorized pattern. We show how such systems can be used when the patterns to be memorized have a subset of relevant features; "s...

Can viruses ever be useful?

M ost of the terms used for computer viruses arc metaphors: they have a largely medical origin, and are seductive if not literally sexy. The very real worries WC have about AIDS, for example, no doubt colour the way we talk about computer viruses. At the extreme, abstractly viruses arc clearly just algorithms, and like any other algorithm they arc good for some things and not good for others. T...

Commentary: Matched cohorts can be useful.