Comparing and selecting spatial predictors using local criteria

Comments on: Comparing and Selecting Spatial Predictors Using Local Criteria

We would like to congratulate the authors for producing this interesting and novel methodology for comparison of spatial fields. It is important that this problem be discussed and expanded, especially in the context of large data sets, which is undoubtedly one of the main challenges that any statistician working with environmental space-time data has to face in contemporary research. We have di...

Discrete Criteria for Selecting and Comparing Metadata Schemes

Comparing and Selecting Performance Measures Using Rank Correlations

The financial economics literature proposes dozens of performance measures to be used, for instance, to compare, analyse, rank and select assets. There is thus a problem: which measures should be considered? We extend the current literature by comparing a large set of performance measures over more than one thousand of equities included in the Standard & Poor’s 1500 index. We evaluate performan...

Selecting the best statistical distribution using multiple criteria

When selecting a statistical distribution to describe a set of data there are a number of criteria that can be used. Rather than select one of these criteria, we look at how multiple criteria can be combined to make the final selection. Two approaches have previously been presented in Computers and Industrial Engineering. We review these, and present a simpler method based on multiplicative agg...

Criteria for selecting MT systems

It was with considerable trepidation that I accepted the invitation to prepare a paper for this conference, especially when following such personalities in the field of CAT as Professor Sager and Mr Zirkle. However, I feel that, in the assessment of the current status of machine translation, some mention should be made of the endeavours to integrate computerised translation into a small busines...