Interocular Symmetry in Macular Choroidal Thickness in Children by Christiane Al-Haddad, Lama El Chaar, Rafic Antonios, Mays El-Dairi, Baha’ Noureddin

“…Interocular differences were computed; correlations with age, gender, refractive error, and axial length were performed. Results. …”
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Public Health: A Comparative Evaluation of Machine-Learning Algorithms in Predicting COVID-19 Mortality by Eric B. Weiser

“…The four ML models were trained and tested on this dataset, with performance assessed using R2, Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE). …”
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Development and validation of a prognostic model for postoperative hypotension in patients receiving epidural analgesia by Carlos E. Guerra-Londono, Erika Taco Vasquez, Efrain Riveros, Ehsan Noori, David Greiver, Srikanth Pillai, Theodore Schiff, James Soetedjo, Maylyn Wu, Jaime Garzon Serrano

“…Conclusion: Using retrospective cohort data, a prognostic model of hypotension produced the best performance results using linear discriminant analysis, with an error misclassification rate of 27%. …”
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Randomization in clinical trials with small sample sizes using group sequential designs. by Daniel Bodden, Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, Franz König

“…We investigate if the choice of randomization procedure, whether balanced or not, impacts the type I error probability and power in small sample clinical trials with group sequential designs.…”
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Long short-term memory-based forecasting of influenza epidemics using surveillance and meteorological data in Tokyo, Japan by Daiki Koge, Daiki Koge, Keita Wagatsuma, Keita Wagatsuma

“…After model training, we assessed the predictive performance on an independent test dataset, using mean square error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.ResultsDuring the study period, 1,445,944 influenza cases were analyzed. …”
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The Norwegian version of the Norwich Patellar Instability score has good validity and moderate reproducibility by T. Hysing‐Dahl, A. G. Faleide, L. H. Magnussen, E. Inderhaug

“…Validity (face, content and construct validity), internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha [α]), test–retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC]], measurement error (standard error of measurement [SEM] and smallest detectable change at individual [SDCind] and group level [SDCgroup]) and construct validity (hypotheses testing; independent t tests, Pearson's r) were examined. …”
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Accuracy and Usability of Smartphone-Based Distance Estimation Approaches for Visual Assistive Technology Development by Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Mingxin Liu, Diwei Sheng, Chen Feng, Todd E. Hudson, John-Ross Rizzo, Kevin C. Chan

“…<italic>Results:</italic> For accuracy in the image center, all approaches had &lt;&#x00B1;2.5 cm average error, except CoreML which had &#x00B1;5.2&#x2013;6.2 cm average error at 2&#x2013;3 meters. …”
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Analytical performance evaluation of intelligent quality management of blood gas analyzer by Hongting Tang, Yawen Xiao, Hong Luo, Jian Jiang, Hanqing Xu, Jun Yang, Lihua Yang, Xiang Yang

“…In addition, intelligent QC identified errors in approximately 1.46 % of the samples. Conclusions: The precision and accuracy of the BGA improved significantly compared to those before management, indicating significant advantages of intelligent quality management in quality management applications.…”
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Analysis of meteorological effects of cosmic ray neutron component based on data from mid-latitude stations by Kobelev P. G., Hamraev Y. B., Yanke V. G.

“…Precision neutron monitors providing continuous monitoring with a statistical accuracy of ~0.15 %/hr are effective for studying cosmic ray variations; therefore, contributions from other error sources should not exceed the contribution of this statistical error. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF MONTE CARLO MOMENT MATCHING METHOD FOR PRICING LOOKBACK FLOATING STRIKE OPTION by Komang Nonik Afsari Dewi, Donny Citra Lesmana, Retno Budiarti

“…The results obtained by adding variance reduction moment matching in Monte Carlo method, which produces a relatively had smaller error when compared to the relative error of the standard Monte Carlo method. …”
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Factors affecting the patient safety climate in military hospitals by Rouhollah Zaboli, Abbas Abaszadeh, mostafa Shahibinejad

“…Results: Nine effective factors on patient safety climate were extracted ─including supervisors' attitudes, management support for patient safety, non-punitive responses to error, team collaboration, medical care safety, workload, error management, employee empowerment, and communications. …”
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Tecnología y enseñanza: una relación compleja en el nuevo siglo by Francisco Martínez-Sánchez

“…Albans, Francis Bacon, la verdad surge más fácilmente del error que de la confusión, de ahí que yo vaya a aventurarme a equivocarme para que de ese error, alguien sea capaz de extraer alguna conclusión verdadera. …”
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Money laundering rate modelling by J. M. Beketnova, E. S. Anisimov

“…This forecast for the past 6 months has been verified by comparison with the actual values by calculating the relative error and the RMSE (root mean square error). In comparison, the authors noted a rare distribution of registered cases for the last decade: an excess of the number of crimes in May over June. …”
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Optimization of classifier ensemble diversity by Leif E. Peterson

“… Ensemble diversity was investigated for 12 classifiers and 16 datasets using a generalization error and ambiguity decomposition of the model bias-variance relationship. …”
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Active disturbance rejection control for reducing vehicle body displacement based on an extended state observer and dynamic fuzzy techniques by Tuan Anh Nguyen

“…According to the calculation results, the displacement and acceleration of the vehicle body are significantly reduced when the proposed technique is applied to control the active suspension system. The error of the road disturbance observed by the extended state observer does not exceed 0.5 mm, while the error of the vehicle body displacement is less than 0.001 mm. …”
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Development and validation of a new predictive model for the immune tolerance stage of chronic HBV infection based on the liver histopathological changes by Wentao Li, Rui Huang, Jian Wang, Binhao Zhang, Qiupeng Wang, Jiang Feng, Tongjing Xing

“…For the new model, CMA guidelines (2019 version), EASL guidelines (2017 version) and AASLD guidelines (2018 version), the error rates in the test group were 4.65%, 11.62%, 23.26%, and 46.51%, respectively, while the errors rates in the validation group were 20.0%, 25.0%, 40.0%, and 45.0%, respectively. …”
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Between-Day Reliability of Kinematic Variables Using Markerless Motion Capture for Single-Leg Squat and Single-Leg Landing Tasks by Matias Yoma, Lee Herrington, Chelsea Starbuck, Luis Llurda, Richard Jones

“…Hip flexion presented values >5° across tasks and technologies (RMSD and SEM= 5° to 8°). # Conclusions Markerless motion capture using Theia3D can reliably measure single-leg tasks with measurement errors comparable to marker-based motion capture. …”
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Feasibility and accuracy evaluation of novel 2D instant navigation system on spinal surgery - a preclinical study by Wen Xia, Zhengyang Wu, Rui Zuo, Jiang Wu, Jing Ling, Linfeng Mo, Zegang Shi, Yue Zhou, Changqing Li, Wenjie Zheng, Chao Zhang

“…Meanwhile, the average angle errors were 0.41±0.29 $$^{\circ }$$ ∘ and 0.37±0.11 $$^{\circ }$$ ∘ , respectively. …”
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Chimeric mis-annotations of genes remain pervasive in eukaryotic non-model organisms by Andreas Bachler, Thomas K. Walsh, Rahul V. Rane, Gunjan Pandey

“…However, limited RNA-Seq data and incomplete protein resources can lead to errors, including chimeric gene mis-annotations, where two or more adjacent genes are incorrectly fused into a single model. …”
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Corrosion rate prediction for long-distance submarine pipelines based on MWIWOA-SVM by Zhengshan LUO, Haipeng LYU, Jihao LUO

“…The internal corrosion rate prediction model based on MWIWOA-SVM for long-distance submarine pipelines achieved an average absolute percentage error and root mean square error of less than 2％, indicating a very low error level. …”
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