Letter/Communication
The hazards of optimal proofreading
Advances in applied probability, Vol.15(4), pp.892-893
12/1983
DOI: 10.2307/1427333
Abstract
In a recent paper (Yang et al. (1982)) a model for proofreading was proposed in which a reader has a fixed probability p of detecting a misprint in a document containing a Poisson number of errors. This note points out that the conclusions derived from such a model can be extremely misleading if the probability of detecting a misprint varies from one misprint to another.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The hazards of optimal proofreading
- Creators
- Luke Tierney - Carnegie Mellon University
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Publication Details
- Advances in applied probability, Vol.15(4), pp.892-893
- DOI
- 10.2307/1427333
- ISSN
- 0001-8678
- eISSN
- 1475-6064
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1983
- Academic Unit
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984257599402771
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