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Direct Encoding and Probabilistic Models2 comments

Caglar Gulcehre wrote 1 month ago: It is enough to answer 3 of the 5 questions below: 1)PSD: Is there an advantage of using PSD (predic … more →

Tags: apr15, Caglar Gulcehre, Autoencoders, bottleneck architecture, PSD

2011 IMEKO Conference Papers Published Online

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 year ago: Papers from the Joint International IMEKO TC1+ TC7+ TC13 Symposium held August 31st to September 2nd … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, models, traceability, Reference Standards, Natural Science, Rasch, instruments, Infrastructure

A New Agenda for Measurement Theory and Practice in Education and Health Care

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 years ago: Two key issues on my agenda offer different answers to the question “Why do you do things the … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, Actor Network Theory (ANT), validity, statistics, invariance, Sufficiency, traceability, Reference Standards

The probabilistic analysis of language acquisition: Theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis

Callier Library wrote 2 years ago: There is much debate over the degree to which language learning is governed by innate language-speci … more →

Tags: Research, Child Language Acquisition, Poverty of the stimulus, No negative evidence, Bayesian models, Minimum description length, Simplicity principle, Natural Language, Identification in the limit

Reasoning by analogy in social science education: On the need for a new curriculum

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: I’d like to revisit the distinction between measurement models and statistical models. Rasch w … more →

Tags: Education, invariance, measurement, models, Parameter separation, Rasch, Science, statistics

Parameterizing Perfection: Practical Applications of a Mathematical Model of the Lean Ideal

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: To properly pursue perfection, we need to parameterize it. That is, taking perfection as the ideal, … more →

Tags: measurement, Tuning instruments, Innovation, Business, Economy, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Psychometrics, Quality Assessment & Improvement

Protocols for Living Capital

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: David Brooks’ December 22, 2009 column, “The Protocol Society,” hits some really great notes. … more →

Tags: Capital, measurement, Metrology, Actor Network Theory (ANT), invariance, Business, Infrastructure, Metrics, social capital

Perancangan supply chain management di PT Sinar Unigrain Indonesia

scientificarchive wrote 3 years ago: Author : JAYA, CHANDRA; PT Sinar Unigrain Indonesia merupakan perusahaan yang mengolah bahan baku ja … more →

Tags: Production Planning, Supply chain management, AHP, rank of suppliers, production schedulling, First come first serve

Reliability Coefficients: Starting from the Beginning

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: [This posting was prompted by questions concerning a previous blog entry, Reliability Revisited, and … more →

Tags: measurement, repeatability, reliability, validity, invariance, Sufficiency, Psychometrics, Quality Assessment & Improvement, Rasch

Statistics and Measurement: Clarifying the Differences6 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: Measurement is qualitatively and paradigmatically quite different from statistics, even though stati … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, validity, statistics, Sufficiency, models, Parameter separation, Meaning, ordinal data

Contesting the Claim, Part III: References

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: References Andersen, E. B. (1977). Sufficient statistics and latent trait models. Psychometrika, 42( … more →

Tags: measurement, statistics, invariance, Sufficiency, models, Parameter separation, ordinal data, Ordinal vs Interval, Natural Science

Contesting the Claim, Part II: Are Rasch Measures Really as Objective as Physical Measures?3 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: When a raw score is sufficient to the task of measurement, the model is the Rasch model, we can esti … more →

Tags: measurement, statistics, invariance, Sufficiency, models, Parameter separation, ordinal data, Ordinal vs Interval, Natural Science

Contesting the Claim, Part I: Are Rasch Measures Really as Objective as Physical Measures?

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: Psychometricians, statisticians, metrologists, and measurement theoreticians tend to be pretty unass … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, invariance, Parameter separation, Meaning, Education, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Psychometrics

Publications Documenting Score, Rating, Percentage Contrasts with Real Measures

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: A few brief and easy introductions to the contrast between scores, ratings, and percentages vs measu … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, reliability, validity, invariance, Sufficiency, models, Parameter separation, Psychometrics

Graphic Illustrations of Why Scores, Ratings, and Percentages Are Not Measures, Part One1 comment

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 years ago: It happens occasionally when I’m speaking to a group unfamiliar with measurement concepts that … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, Metrology, invariance, Parameter separation, traceability

The discovery of structural form1 comment

wrightfisher wrote 4 years ago: Charles Kemp and Joshua Tenenbaum have published (or have in press) a series of beautiful papers con … more →

Tags: Machine learning, Journal Article, inference

On nucleosome positioning

wrightfisher wrote 5 years ago: One of the topics I’ve been tracking with some interest lately has been nucleosome positioning … more →

Tags: genomics, Journal Article, nucleosomes, regulation

Predicting Drosophila Segmentation1 comment

wrightfisher wrote 5 years ago: Segal et. al. recently published a paper in Nature describing a computational framework that models … more →

Tags: Machine learning, Journal Article, regulation

Probabilistic Functional Networks

wrightfisher wrote 5 years ago: I recently read the Lee et. al. paper “A single gene network accurately predicts phenotypic ef … more →

Tags: genomics, Networks, Journal Article


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