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Mark Leighton Fisher (4252)

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I am a Systems Engineer at Regenstrief Institute [regenstrief.org]. I also own Fisher's Creek Consulting [comcast.net].

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Friday July 06, 2007
11:44 AM

Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation

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Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation is a nice exposition of the pitfalls you may see when you perform experiments. Remember: any time you measure performance of your code, you are doing an experiment on your system, so the aforementioned caveats apply.


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  • An interesting read. Apparently Arthur Conan Doyle believed Houdini was actually a spiritual medium, despite Houdini's explanation of his exploits. And they continued to remain friends.

    As William Trochim said, Clinical judgement is no substitute for rigorous measurement--and vice versa.
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