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On the optimistic performance evaluation of newly introduced bioinformatic methods

2021-01-19

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<p>Most research articles presenting new data analysis methods claim that “the new method performs better than existing methods”, but the veracity of such statements is questionable. Our manuscript discusses and illustrates consequences of the optimistic bias occurring during the evaluation of novel data analysis methods, that is, all biases resulting from, for example, selection of datasets or competing methods;...

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0410a583-6709-5612-9ab9-0c244e107dde
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10.31222/osf.io/pkqdx
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