Mike Shedlock of Global Economic Trend Analysis was the first to pick up several problems with the details of the report and his analysis is worth a read.
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Certainly, there are glitches with Dr Lisi's analysis and some of the truly fundamental problems that plague more conventional work remain.
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But for many other problems, the analysis can be done in memory.
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The analysis of such data poses problems beyond mere volume control.
The need is for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary teams that can do everything from planning and training, through design and execution, to monitoring and evaluating programs, and can work in the complex overlapping space among all these problems, from the strategic and risk analysis level right down to field execution.
The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
At the very best, the first hints of these problems came from a re-analysis of data--an unreliable technique--two years after the drug had been on the market.
As many of the world problems resolve over the next year, the markets should return to more rational analysis and will reward idiosyncratic company risk when appropriate.
The ideal for this sort of analysis and many other problems would be to have both types of information available in one system.
Bextra, a drug that was similar to Vioxx, was linked to heart problems by one such analysis and has since been pulled from the market for serious skin side effects.
The problems began back in April when people began taking notice of negative analysis from Edward A. Zabitsky, of Toronto-based ACI Research.
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Empirical investigation as posited by Morphological Analysis and more generally by others is currently the most effective means of testing complex or wicked problems such as cyber security.
Last year, federal regulators blamed heavy tube wear in the generators on a botched computer analysis that they said badly misjudged how water and steam would flow in the reactors, along with manufacturing problems.
The companies say the delay of the analysis was driven by the need to make sure the data were as accurate as could be, and to fix problems with the artery images Kastelein collected.
I'm hoping that more than usual comes out of these efforts, because it's problems like these that point to the need for these efforts and to really have a real thorough analysis of what kind of leadership we've been getting, what we need, and what Congress should be doing.
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