Talk:Gold standard (test)

message: I think there is a POV in saying that the "AMA somewhat pedantically prefers the phrase" --Lux 04:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: somewhat pedantically

message: The start of the article says that a gold standard test is 100% accurate. The last paragraph tells of imperfect yet allegedly gold standard tests. Where does the truth lie?
69.157.111.210 23:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: The notion of a gold standard is also used in the area of machine learning and especially applications in computational linguistics. However it does refer to a quite similar concept there, so it might not be a good idea to create a new article. In machine learning classification problems (seperate a set of data in classes in an automatic manner) the term "gold standard" refers to a manually classified set of data which is then used to validate the performance of classification algorithms. Any ideas how to bring this in?
:Isn't it called ground truth in machine learning? Qorilla (talk) 16:27, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, it is indeed called ground truth in machine learning.  I've added a note to that effect.  It's interesting to note that there are so many different terms for statistical concepts (between data science, machine learning, information retrieval, mathematical statistics, signal detection theory, etc).  These fields have so much in common, yet we're just now beginning to even note the similarities (let alone consolidate terms and concepts).  "Gold standard" is not a term used in ML or IR (in fact, is it used anywhere outside medicine and medicine-related statistics?).  That said, it might be more appropriate; in other fields, the term "ground truth" refers to an authoritative state of information derived from direct observation, whereas the ML/IR definition is essentially that of the gold standard.  I've spent quite a bit of time trying to streamline the ground truth article and I've been trying to avoid touching this article as well.  So much for that! Adam KatzΔ☎ 19:45, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold Standard in Machine Learning 

message: Edited the first paragraph to include the gold standard for medical research (e.g., survival to hospital discharge for resuscitation research, decrease in 30 day mortality for other types of medical research). Accidentally clicked 'minor' edit. MoodyGroove 21:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold standard in medical research 

message: I don;t have the expertise, but this entry needs to be brought up to speed with other epidemiology sections.
Should be linked to the sections of test performance, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.99.163.8 (talk) 21:14, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This needs to be cleaned up 

message: I clicked on reference 3 and since it's not in English (Swedish maybe?) I wasn't able to read what it says.  There are some cute pictures of hedgehogs in the first few pages though.  Googling "paradox of the gold standard" points back to this page and a few that refer to it.  Is this an actual term?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfhound668 (talk • contribs) 18:32, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 3 

message: Move to criterion standard as that is what medical journals call it? Biosthmors (talk) 21:15, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move?