I seem to be becoming a sort of “testing expert”, though the so-called “testing mafia” (ok I only called them that) may disagree. Nothing external happened since the last time I wrote about this topic, but here is more “expertise” from my end. As some of you might be aware, I’ve now created a script…
More on covid testing
There has been a massive jump in the number of covid-19 positive cases in Karnataka over the last couple of days. Today, there were 44 new cases discovered, and yesterday there were 36. This is a big jump from the average of about 15 cases per day in the preceding 4-5 days. The good news…
Calibration and test sets
When you’re doing any statistical analysis, the standard thing to do is to divide your data into “calibration” and “test” data sets. You build the model on the “calibration” data set, and then test it on the “test” data set. The purpose of this slightly complicated procedure is so that you don’t “overfit” your model.…