Ever since the famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden leaked the significant information of behind the door
data snooping on encrypted systems by local government, public privacy via encryption has been a heated topic of debate in the United States.
It will be interesting to see if the recent NSA
data snooping revelations will impact students» current preference for USA based email providers in the coming years.
Data snooping refers to statistical inference that the researcher decides to perform after looking at the data (as contrasted with pre-planned inference, which the researcher plans before looking at the data).
Here is the deal with
data snooping.
If you do that you are using the outcome to affect the input, you are making up your proxy selection rules post ante, and that's
data snooping.
WE, your example of the medicine study is not only
data snooping, it will get your application to the FDA handed back to you forthwith, and perhaps a g - man visit with a list of questions he wants to ask you.
As such, it's not
data snooping... at least I think not.
While I do not reject the concept of a «proxy» theoretically, I am very critical of specific attempts to implement the idea — especially
data snooping and ex post correlation picking.
Let's pretend that our post hoc
data snooping analysis shows that 4 of the multitude of models are good, therefore they are all good.
Earlier, the use of the first and last blocks had been of characterized as open to «
data snooping» abuse:
RE: Don Monfort 7/21 2:11 am: our post hoc
data snooping analysis shows that 4 of the multitude of models are good, therefore they are all good.
Without a better established and understood a prior process for wind effects on Tmin as related to UHI, the selection processes become just that much more suspect as
data snooping.
Isn't
that data snooping?
Willis Wrote This: Finally, I still say that their method involves
data snooping.
After reading Parker's replies to your questions Neal, I am no closer to resolving my apprehensions of
data snooping that, while very well being unintentional, could conceiveably get lost in the «selection processes for a reason (s)» that have been well documented here.
Miller is a reputable scientist whose work rises above
the data snooping, data mining and regression against increasing trends of self - opinionated verbiage (to borrow Briffa's phrase) that is too prevalent in the field.
There is a thin line between data mining and
data snooping and in my view depends much on one's a priors going into the search.
The climate community does not seem to exercise such care, and when their poor use of methods is pointed out they just ignore it and carry on (I could give scores of examples, from improper use of principal components, data mining,
data snooping, spatial correlation, upside down data, single cause fallacy... and now uniform priors).
These are all dismissed summarily with platitudinous bromides such as the evidence is «
data snooping», or their «good results will get arbitraged away,» without any serious thought or analysis, other than «Bogle is our God, and therefore we must ignore all that he didn't recommend (or sell)».
Mayer and McHugh also appear to be
data snooping when they reference only one of six studies in the peer - reviewed literature of the past 16 years that employ proper probability - sampling methods, «and it just so happens to be the one with the lowest estimate of genetic influence of the entire set,» Hamer says.
They employ a test methodology designed to account for
data snooping in identifying reliably profitable trading rules.
Are technical rules applied to pairs trading attractive after correcting for
data snooping bias?
In their March 2018 paper entitled «Pairs Trading, Technical Analysis and
Data Snooping: Mean Reversion vs Momentum», Ioannis Psaradellis, Jason Laws, Athanasios Pantelous and Georgios Sermpinis test a variety of technical trading rules for long - short trading of 15 commodity futures, equity indexes and currency pairs (all versus the U.S. dollar) frequently used on trading websites or offered by financial market firms.
Some analysts fail to account for
data snooping bias in their analyses of market timing indicators.
They use False Discovery Rate (FDR) to control for
data snooping bias, such that 90 % of the equally weighted best rules in FDR - corrected portfolios significantly outperform the benchmark.
Although it's been more than two years since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency's
data snooping, U.S. officials and tech executives are still grappling with balancing national security and privacy.
And so I complained to our magical
data snoop that we were only looking at e-book sales.
Old proxies that have been
data snooped continue in use e.g. Graybill bristlecones, Yamal.
Not exact matches
Four to six digits stand between most iPhone users» personal
data and the prying eyes of
snoops, criminals, and investigators.
It's questionable whether consumers and governments in other countries are familiar with the finer points of PIPEDA, which means even just the perception of overreaching
data -
snooping capabilities could be enough to instill a chill.
But if foreign consumers, and especially businesses, believe
data held with those companies is vulnerable to
snooping, Kroes thinks they could quickly lose their edge in an industry estimated by research company Gartner Inc. to be worth more than $ 135 billion a year.
A company that just settled
data «
snooping» charges with New Jersey made only $ 2,500 for selling 400,000 individuals»
data — 16 cents a person.»
But there's a lot more to big
data than
snooping and up - selling.
Uber is hiring a former IBM chief privacy officer to review the company's practices after it was reported the company may have violated its privacy policy by
snooping on customer
data.
Eric Knorr says you need to protect yourself from the coming cloud crackup, and Lucas Mearian suggests ways to keep the feds from
snooping on your cloud
data.
On January 28, 2014 — European
Data Protection Day (yes, it's been celebrated in Europe since 2006)-- EU vice president and justice commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech that European citizens were «in shock» over the extent of the National Security Agency
snooping.
Conspiracy theories about it
snooping on people through its microphone, and confusion about it collecting SMS and call log history likely pushed Facebook to give people details about what
data it's slurping up.
In their May 2013 paper entitled «Forty Years, Thirty Currencies and 21,000 Trading Rules: A Large - Scale,
Data -
Snooping Robust Analysis of Technical Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market», Po - Hsuan Hsu and Mark Taylor test the effectiveness of a broad set of quantitative technical trading rules as applied to exchange rates of 30 currencies with the U.S. dollar over extended periods.
Britain's intelligence agencies could receive a rebuke from the
snooping watchdog after it emerged there were over half a million requests for access to private
data in 2012.
It was accompanied by the infamous «Ripa» (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) laying down rules on
data access, and under which dwelt such horrors as a local council
snooping on parents to see if they have lied about living in the catchment area of a popular school.
Last year alone, we defeated 400,000 hostile email attacks on the government's secure network, which can range from cyber espionage when perpetrators seek to access our secure systems to
snoop for sensitive
data, to attacks designed to undermine or even shut down vital networks.
When you log in to an account with these firms, the
data sent between you and their servers is encrypted, making it difficult to
snoop — but the internal transfers between
data centres are unencrypted.
In a sensitive measurement, such as one involving a real nuclear warhead, the proposition is that no classified
data would be exposed or shared in the process, and no electronic components that might be vulnerable to tampering or
snooping would be used.
None of these tools alone ensures complete privacy or protection from cyber
snooping, but they do offer a way to trim the
data trails that curtail one's privacy.
So in 2007 he started Forensic Weather Consultants, which offers meteorological
snooping to local lawyers, providing expert analysis of weather
data and satellite imagery.
With so many of our daily activities now taking place «in the cloud,» Kesan cautions it's still perfectly acceptable for users to give away personal information to online services — so long as they're comfortable with allowing companies to
snoop, aggregate and
data mine their online habits.
Associated Press — Jan 21 — Should the government be allowed to
snoop on «aggregated query
data (not search results)» from Google?
It violated two major tech directives: it didn't allow for remote
snooping of customer
data like android, and two, it was handwriting input, something forbidden by Apple and the industry (they want keyboard input for keyloggers and the like to work better).
«
Data -
Snooping Biases in Tests of Financial Asset Pricing Models.»
(3) Your results are biased by
data -
snooping and knowledge of the trend.