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Stating the fine print
September 4, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 9 weeks ago
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Like the last reviewer said, everybody involved in computer science research knows this already, any model that we come up includes a fine print of positive/negative constraints and includes error variable.
It's upto the application to decide what error is acceptable, for example if the research in next 10 or 20 years comes up with a model which has smaller error than human error (essentially increases the survival probability of patient over the entire world - which includes advanced diagnostics available to first world countries and simple diagnostics for third world) then you might as well use it for third world countries.