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JBCB
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Comparison of Statistical Significance Criteria
Mireille Régnier, Mathias Vandenbogaert
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A comparison of statistical significance tests for information retrieval evaluation
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan, Ben Carterette
BMCBI
2004
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13 years 5 months ago
Estimates of statistical significance for comparison of individual positions in multiple sequence alignments
Background: Profile-based analysis of multiple sequence alignments (MSA) allows for accurate comparison of protein families. Here, we address the problems of detecting statistical...
Ruslan Sadreyev, Nick V. Grishin
EMNLP
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A Systematic Comparison of Training Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation
We address the problem of training the free parameters of a statistical machine translation system. We show significant improvements over a state-of-the-art minimum error rate tr...
Richard Zens, Sasa Hasan, Hermann Ney
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
MPIPairwiseStatSig: parallel pairwise statistical significance estimation of local sequence alignment
Sequence comparison is considered as a cornerstone application in bioinformatics, which forms the basis of many other applications. In particular, pairwise sequence alignment is a...
Ankit Agrawal, Sanchit Misra, Daniel Honbo, Alok N...