In assessing foreign language writing, holistic and analytic scoring can be used to measure a variety of discourse and linguistic features. This study aimed to investigate the possible significant effect of analyt- ic and holistic assessments on improving writing skill among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, two groups of intermediate EFL learners, after being homogenized, were divided in...

heretofore, a vast spectrum of pattern recognition methods has been considered by researchers to design credit scoring models. but what has not been considered enough in these studies is the lack of consideration of the needs of this subject which differentiate it from a simple classification. it is necessary to observe the costs of a wrong classification, because practically the cost of improp...

credit scoring is a classification problem leading to introducing numerous techniques to deal with it such as support vector machines, neural networks and rule-based classifiers. rule bases are the top priority in credit decision making because of their ability to explicitly distinguish between good and bad applicants.in a credit- scoring context, imbalanced data sets frequently occur as the nu...

background: the present study was performed to develop a scoring system for predicting cure status in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl). materials and methods: this study included 199 patients with cl from skin diseases and leishmaniasis research center (isfahan, iran). data were collected as longitudinal in each visit of patients. we applied ordinal logistic generalized estimating equ...