4 Risk assessment methods based on scoring methods that rate the 5 severity of each risk factor on an ordinal scale are widely used and 6 frequently perceived by users to have value. We argue that this 7 perceived benefit is probably illusory in most cases. We begin by 8 describing a number of common scoring methods currently used to 9 assess risk in a variety of different domains. We then revi...

There are many examples of athletic Cup competitions in which groups of high schools or colleges compete against each other in multiple sports. Typically points are awarded for performances in each sport, and the school with the most points at the end of the season wins the Cup. In this paper we analyze the scoring system of the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools Headmaster’s Cup, and ...

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction, where vectors are sought to project data lower dimensional space optimal separability of classes. Several recent papers have outlined strategies, based on exploiting sparsity the vectors, performing LDA in high-dimensional setting number features exceeds observations data. However, many these proposed methods...