Validity and power of t-test for comparing MAP and GMAP

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 753-754

  Cormack, Gordon V ^a   Lynam, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Significance test; Statistical power; Validity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA ACQUISITION; ROBUST CONTROL; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOMETRIC MEAN AVERAGE PRECISION (GMAP); MEAN AVERAGE PRECISION (MAP); ROBUST RETRIEVAL COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 36448963050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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