Comments on: Probabilities in Proofreading http://joaoff.com/2009/09/14/probabilities-in-proofreading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=probabilities-in-proofreading Programming, Algorithms, and Calculational Mathematics Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ouroborus http://joaoff.com/2009/09/14/probabilities-in-proofreading/#comment-239 Ouroborus Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:36:41 +0000 http://www.joaoff.com/?p=267#comment-239 In 1976, this was probably a good answer. Nowadays, we have a peculiar kind of proofreader: The computer. If you have several proofreaders, and you ignore one in these calculations, what effect does this have on the estimate? In 1976, this was probably a good answer. Nowadays, we have a peculiar kind of proofreader: The computer. If you have several proofreaders, and you ignore one in these calculations, what effect does this have on the estimate?

]]> By: June Kim http://joaoff.com/2009/09/14/probabilities-in-proofreading/#comment-238 June Kim Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:56:07 +0000 http://www.joaoff.com/?p=267#comment-238 Nice piece. This is a well known practice in ecology for estimating population size(and recently in sociology and policy-making for estimating, for example, homeless people). It's called mark and recapture or capture-recapture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture There are even some(not many) papers applying this technique to defect estimation in software. Nice piece. This is a well known practice in ecology for estimating population size(and recently in sociology and policy-making for estimating, for example, homeless people). It’s called mark and recapture or capture-recapture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture

There are even some(not many) papers applying this technique to defect estimation in software.

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