Dynamic parameter design introduced by Taguchi (1987) is one of the most important tool in quality engineering. It is also known as parameter design in signal-response systems (Miller and Wu, 1996; Wu and Hamada, 2000, chapter 11). The name suggests that the interest lies in a signal-response relationship rather than a single value of the response. Taguchi’s approach to dynamic parameter design...

Two different classes of quality measures are discussed and compared: absolute and relative measures. The relative class to which the prediction error belongs has many different approximations and equivalents, like the spectral distortion and the likelihood ratio. This measure is based on time series theory and can be written as a relative error in the frequency domain. It is useful in many app...

missioners approved a final set of standardized performance measures for the Disease-Specific Care Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC) advanced certification program. The comprehensive stroke (CSTK) measures are designed to evaluate the management of both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke patients in hospitals equipped with the clinical expertise, infrastructure, and specialized neurointerventional...

BACKGROUND The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) aims to promote high quality clinical guideline development and implementation. Guideline-based performance measures are a key implementation tool and are widely used internationally for quality improvement, quality assurance, and pay for performance in health care. There is, however, no international consensus on best methods for guidelin...

Sales of a brand are determined by measures such as how many customers buy the brand, how often, and how much they also buy other brands. Scanner panel operators routinely report these ‘‘brand performance measures’’ (BPMs) to their clients. In this position paper, we consider how to understand, interpret, and use these measures. The measures are shown to follow well-established patterns. One is...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2009.10.016 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 312 2903405; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B. edu.tr (S. Aksoy), [email protected] (S. Eckert), Pesaresi), [email protected] (D. Ehrlich). We propose a new procedure for quantitative evaluation of object detection algorithms. The procedure consists of ...

This study emphasizes the importance of using appropriate measures in particular text classification settings. We focus on methods that evaluate how well a classifier performs. The effect of transformations on the confusion matrix are considered for eleven well-known and recently introduced classification measures. We analyze the measure’s ability to retain its value under changes in a confusio...

We extend performance measures commonly used in semantic web applications to be capable of handling multi-graded relevance data. Most of today's recommender social web applications o er the possibility to rate objects with di erent levels of relevance. Nevertheless most performance measures in Information Retrieval and recommender systems are based on the assumption that retrieved objects (e. g...