...Derom

The first three authors may be contacted at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington St., Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK. K. J. Dalton is with the Cambridge University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Rosie Maternity Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2SW, UK. R. Derom is with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Center for Human Genetics, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.

...case

In this document, we use the terms ``case'', ``patient'' and ``patient profile'' for convenience. We would not normally refer to mothers-to-be in this way. Similarly, the term ``user'' is a convenient way to refer to a person accessing the web page via a web browser.

...Dirichlet

Technically speaking, in this two-class problem, we should speak of using a Beta prior.

...accurate

At a recent NATO Advanced Study Institute, Leo Breiman referred to this dilemma as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of statistics. Given some measure of interpretability I, and accuracy A, he suggested that IA > b, for some positive b.

...dataset

In almost all cases, these factors will be known before labour commences and indicate that delivery will be by Caesarian section so that failure to progress in labour cannot occur.

D.R. Lovell
Mon Sep 15 18:08:31 BST 1997