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Record W4231079447 · doi:10.22215/etd/2020-14244

The development and application of a universal trait-based model for rapid bioassessment of freshwater systems using diatoms

2020· dissertation· en· W4231079447 on OpenAlexaff
Katherine Mckercher

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicDiatoms and Algae Research
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdentification (biology)TraitProcess (computing)CertaintyComputer scienceEcologyData miningBiologyMathematics

Abstract

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Diatoms are commonly used as indicators of aquatic ecosystem health and can effectively predict values of specific environmental variables.Their use in environmental monitoring programs can be constrained by the expert knowledge that is required for identification to a species level as well as the time and costs associated with identification.Attempts have been made to simplify this identification process by lowering the taxonomic resolution of identification to family or genus level or through automation of identification.These techniques, though functional, do not result in an overall simplification of the identification process that is justifiable against the decrease in certainty of results.A trait-based identification technique using easily identifiable and influential traits for predicting environmental variables could justify the decrease in certainty when considering the decrease in time and cost associated with identification.This could make the use of diatoms as an indicator of ecosystem health more accessible to non-experts. A.2Correlation Results for Combined Datasets ..............

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.044

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2020
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