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plasma-umass / DataDebug

Excel 2010/2013 add-in that automatically finds errors in spreadsheets
http://checkcell.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Better motivate total error metric #52

Closed dbarowy closed 10 years ago

dbarowy commented 10 years ago

We do a poor job at motivating the total error metric. Many reviewers respond viscerally to our long list of definitions.

This metric is essential for showing that CheckCell's error-reduction/effort is better than Normal-type analyses. We should defer the detailed explanation for after we've explained the metric's importance. Further, each sub-definition should be explained in the larger context: e.g., "this metric exists so that we can treat the results of string and numeric hypothesis tests homogeneously."

dbarowy commented 10 years ago

Eval discussion reordered for this purpose.