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John Bell
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 68
Citations - 7066
John Bell is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public law & Sources of law. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 66 publications receiving 6461 citations. Previous affiliations of John Bell include University of Leeds.
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A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models
Alan H. Fielding,John Bell +1 more
TL;DR: Thirteen recommendations are made to enable the objective selection of an error assessment technique for ecological presence/absence models and a new approach to estimating prediction error, which is based on the spatial characteristics of the errors, is proposed.
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Are Summer‐born Children Disadvantaged? The Birthdate Effect in Education
John Bell,Sandra Daniels +1 more
TL;DR: A hierarchical linear model (using HLM software) enabled evidence of a birthdate effect to be identified in the performance of pupils aged 11, 13 and 15 on the APU Science Survey tests as discussed by the authors.
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What makes marking reliable? Experiments with UK examinations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two experimental studies on the effects of particular aspects of community of practice on examiners' marking reliability, including the use of exemplar scripts or discussion between examiners.
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The predictive validity of the BioMedical Admissions Test for pre-clinical examination performance
Joanne L. Emery,John Bell +1 more
TL;DR: The predictive validity of the BMAT and its predecessor, the Medical and Veterinary Admissions Test, are reported on.
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Tree-based methods
TL;DR: This chapter introduces classification tree methodology as an alternative to methods such as discriminant analysis and logistic regression and is illustrated using a small set of data on the species-habitat relationships of pronghorn deer.