> > There's a lot of arbitrariness in your choices for the relative > importance of D vs G and how quickly the weights decay to zero. Unless > your results were used for something very critical like litigation or > salary negotiations, I wouldn't waste a lot of time trying to compare > different approaches. Most reasonable approaches will come up with > roughly the same answer.
PS to Steve. Although not a matter of life and death - they are pretty critical to me :) If one method gives a 10% improvement over another then it might make all the difference. Cheers . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
