Testing fisher

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Tue Jan 28 15:40:48 CET 2003


David Relson wrote:

> An interesting table.  Your best value of min_dev seems to depend on 
> whether a non-zero F-P is acceptable to you.

Yes, but as I said that single failure really looks like spam.

> min_dev=0.2 gives 184 F-N and 0 F-P, while min_dev of 0.015, 0.02, and 
> 0.025 give essentially identical results of 89-92 F-N and 1 F-P.  (I've 
> extracted the min_dev lines I mention.)
> 
>     fisher-2        0.20          0.60     4221   184   15140  0
> 
>     fisher-2        0.025         0.60     4262    89   15251  1
>     fisher-2        0.02          0.60     4297    92   15362  1
>     fisher-2        0.015         0.60     4295    92   15361  1
> 
> So, having done your testing, what values are you actually using?

0.025 for two days now with great success. Still my
.procmailrc has to do some work, but there is basically
nothing I see.

pi





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