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Appendix B Abstracts of Background Papers
Pages 191-193

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... Marshall, Pennsylvania State University This paper presents a model that extends the information transmission literature to consider the question of strategic information generation. We analyze a principal-agent game in which the agent strategically chooses the probability with which s/he can distinguish a given state from its complement.
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... " We identify circumstances in which the available data permit testing the original hypotheses with better performance characteristics (that is, smaller error probabilities) than the test originally planned; a complementary analysis of situations leading to poorer performance is also given.
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... Use of this technology has led to extensive test automation, significant reduction in the time these software-intensive products are in testing, improved feedback to the developers regarding product deficiencies or quality, improved advice to management regarding suitability for deployment, and greatly improved field reliability of products shipped. From a statistical point of view, all the topics in this paper follow sound problem-solving principles and are direct applications of well-established theory and methodology.
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