Model combinations through revised base rates

A network model to assess base-filter combinations

Base rates, blindness, and schizophrenia

Our paper on congenital and early (C/E) blindness and schizophrenia was an effort to account for the previously reported negative relationship between these conditions, in light of recent work indicating what the study of C/E blind people reveals about brain function and organization (Cattaneo and Vecchi, 2011; Kupers et al., 2011; Ricciardi and Pietrini, 2011). In particular, we hypothesized t...

The PFTK-model revised

This paper presents an analytical model of TCP Reno throughput as a function of loss event rate, average round trip time, average retransmission timeout value, and receiver window size based on the model proposed by Padhye et al. (widely known as the PFTK-model in correspondence with the initials of the authors). The presented model refines previous work by careful examination of fast retransmi...

Policy Shift Through Numerically-Driven Inferencing: An EPIC Experiment About When Base Rates Matter

Drawing on research areas such as estimation, innumeracy, attitude, scientific conceptual change, social cognition, and judgment and decision making, we offer results from a paradigm we call Numerically-Driven Inferencing (Ranney, Cheng, Nelson, & Garcia de Osuna, 2001). NDI includes observing the effects of presenting critical, germane, and credible base rates that are relevant to social polic...

Towards Base Rates in Software Analytics

Nowadays a vast and growing body of open source software (OSS) project data is publicly available on the internet. Despite this public body of project data, the field of software analytics has not yet settled on a solid quantitative base for basic properties such as code size, growth, team size, activity, and project failure. What is missing is a quantification of the base rates of such propert...