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Significance is a new journal published jointly by the American Statistical Association and The Royal Statistical Society. One recent article ( http://www.nr.com/whp/Significance_ToCatchATerrorist.pdf ) discusses why over-sampling people with high-risk profiles, at airport check points for instance, does not work.
I think this article is very controversial, and the statistical explanations are flawed. The metric used to measure the success of "oversampling high-risk profiles" (for terrorism detection) is in my opinion flawed. The message that the authors want to convey is:
My argument, why this article is flawed, is:
What do you think?
Pdf version of the article: Significance_ToCatchATerrorist.pdf
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