Data conditioning

Process data, which is used for the identification of a black box model, such as training of a neural network, has to be a good representation of the process considered. Therefore the data set has to be examined carefully and bad data will have to be removed from it. The data set should be further examined to determine the degree of correlation within and between the outputs and inputs of the process. This is needed to determine the structure of the model to be developed. In this chapter some aspects of the analysis of process measurements will be discussed. 

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Scheme 1.1 shows data for the regioselectivity of enolate formation for several ketones under various reaction conditions. A consistent relationship is found in these and related data. Conditions of kinetic control usually favor formation of the less-substituted enolate, especially for methyl ketones. The main reason for this result is that removal of a less hindered hydrogen is faster, for steric reasons, than removal of a more hindered hydrogen. Steric factors in ketone deprotonation are accentuated by using bulky bases. The most widely used bases are LDA, LiHMDS, and NaHMDS. Still more hindered disilylamides such as hexaethyldisilylamide9 and bis-(dimethylphenylsilyl)amide10 may be useful for specific cases. 

Figure 7. Temperature dependence comparison of threshold voltage drift and dc conduction data. Conditions area = 0.01 cm AH = 0.7 eV I —A> PI-2 and , PI-3 I/pp—AVrjpjc data.

Solvents and reagents are well maintained, but they do not always carry labeling as to time of receipt and storage data. Condition of distilled water is ques-t ionable. 

Data Conditions Sym bol Liquid + its vapour flashing, OR Gas + liquid no flash Liquid only flashing Liquid flashing + Gas with or without vapour Units (1) Comments... 

Data Conditioning of Environmental Geochemical Data Quality Control Procedures Used in the British Geological Survey s Regional Geochemical Mapping Project... 

Data conditioning procedures involve the verification, quality control and data levelling processes that are necessary to make data fit for the purpose for which it is to be used. It is something that has to be planned at the outset of any project generating geochemical data. Whether it is in the sampling phase, for example, determining how sites and... 

The need for specific test data, conditions, or equipment... 

They concluded that the Type I error rate for EBE-based methods were near the nominal level (a = 0.05) under most cases. The Type I errors for the NL-based methods were near the nominal level in most cases, but were smaller under sparse data conditions and with small sample sizes. The LRT cases consistently inflated the Type I error rate and that, not surprisingly, the LRT was the most powerful of the methods examined. This latter result can be rationalized as thinking that the inflated Type I error rate acts as a constant to inflate statistical power at nonzero effect sizes. They concluded that the LRT was too liberal for sparse data, while the NL-based methods were too conservative, and that the EBE-based methods were the most reliable for covariate selection. 

Troitskij s analysis is based on more than 37 000 galactic and quasar redshifts. By comparison, the meagre sample that originally established the linear Hubble law is rather crude. However, as defenders of universal expansion freely use data conditioned by Hubble s law, further debate of the issue becomes pointless. 

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