Three pitfalls to avoid in machine learning

Legal pitfalls to avoid in criminal interrogations.

How to avoid pitfalls in antibody use

Antibody use is ubiquitous in the biomedical sciences. However, determining best research practices has not been trivial. Many commercially available antibodies and antibody-conjugates are poorly characterized and lack proper validation. Uncritical application of such useless tools has contributed to the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research. Despite early initiatives such as MIAPAR or ...

Verifying Propositional Unsatisfiability: Pitfalls to Avoid

The importance of producing a certi cate of unsatis ability is increasingly recognized for high performance propositional satis ability solvers. The leading solvers develop a con ict graph as the basis for deriving (or \learning") new clauses. Extracting a resolution derivation from the con ict graph is theoretically straightforward, but it turns out to have some surprising practical pitfalls (...

Pitfalls to avoid when merging information systems.

When healthcare organizations merge, their goal often is to improve operational efficiencies, with information systems (IS) a common target for cost reduction. These cost reductions usually are achieved by reducing staff, consolidating data centers, establishing standardized systems, and sharing resources throughout the system. During this process, however, several common pitfalls can cause mer...

Correctly using sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values in clinical practice: how to avoid three common pitfalls.

OBJECTIVE Radiology is the specialty of imaging-based diagnostic tests. Understanding the science behind evaluating diagnostic test performance is essential for radiologists because we provide care to patients and interact with our colleagues. CONCLUSION Here, we review the key terminology used and common pitfalls encountered in the literature and in day-to-day discussions of diagnostic test ...