[Corpora-List] Significance tests for n-fold cross validation

[Eiman Al-Shammari]

yes, because you did sampling and you have to prove that your sample
is representative

Dr.Eiman Al-Shammari

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Emad Mohamed <emohamed at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> Dear Corpora Listers,
>
> I have run a number of POS tagging experiments in a 5 fold cross validation
> setting. Imagine the results of the 5 folds (in terms of accuracy) are these
> fictitious numbers:
>
> 93.4%    93.7%     92.9%     93%    93.1%
>
> I then added feature x to the feature set, which gave the following results:
>
> 93.7%  94%       92.7%       93.2%   93.4%
>
> My question is: Do I need to use any significance test to show  that adding
> feature x really helps? if no, why not? and if yes, what are the appropriate
> tests in such a case?
>
> Thank you in anticipation
>
>
> --
> Emad Soliman Ali Mohamed
> aka Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
> Suez Canal University, Egypt
>
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