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Your government warns that 10% of your neighbors have a deadly contagious virus. The producer of a diagnostic test advertises that 90% of its tests are correct for any population. The test indicates that you have the virus. This book's author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your test's result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in life's decisions.This book gives methods and software that are essential to analyze change and error. Change describes a phenomenon across time points. Error compares diagnoses with the truth. Other texts give insufficient attention to these topics. This book's novel ideas dispel popular misconceptions and replace previous methods. The author uses carefully designed graphics and high school mathematics to communicate easily with college students and advanced scientists. Applications include but are not limited to Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, and Geographic Information Science.

Book details

• Full title: Metrics That Make a Difference
• Subtitle: How to Analyze Change and Error
• Author: Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 117
• EAN: 9783030707644
• ISBN: 3030707644
• ID: 37628605
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Weight: 409 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 2022

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