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The latest news and insights from the team at Hubbard Decision ResearchLens Model: Negative Value
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:20:07 PM, by sujoymitra17. "While using Lens Model (multiple regression), I am getting negative scores for a few parameters and positive scores for few others. I am computing the...
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How do you backtest a probability estimate?
A question asked by a subscriber: I am sympathetic to the concept of using a Monte Carlo approach, perhaps using a cascaded series of Monte Carlo models to model inputs, to produce an estimated probability distribution. This seems like a more reasonable approach to...
First Print Errata
Welcome to the Errata thread in the book discussion of the How to Measure Anything Forum. An author goes through a lot of check with the publisher but some errors manage to get through. Some my fault, some caused by the typesetter or publisher not making previous...
Variation of Recatch Example
Originally posted to http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, July 13, 2009 2:13:07 PM. "I would love to see an example following upon the idea of estimating the population of all prospective clients which uses similar sampling method as recatching...
Random Power Law Generator Example?
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, June 22, 2009 4:33:03 AM. "Greetings! ON the page 187 there is a claim that the author has generated an example of random power law generator, but i cant find it from the examples. Can someone...
Measuring the Gross Margin of Specific Projects
This question was originally posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 10:47:57 AM by mzaret20000 on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/. "Hi Douglas, I have been asked to provide the gross margin for client engagements. My company is a recruiting firm that operates...
Pass/Fail Questions
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:46:05 PM by "Hi Doug, I want to share an observation a V.P. made after doing the 10 pass fail questions. If one was to input 50% confidence to all the questions and randomly...
