Re: Hauschild A. Adjuvant interferon alfa for mela- noma: new evidence-based treatment recommenda-
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The author poses the question “Why did these study results not lead to a global consensus about interferon treatment as standard of care?” The answer is quite simple: The E1684 adjuvant high-dose interferon (hdifn) trial, while initially positive, was later shown to be negative. Remarkably, in spite of a p value of 0.09, the principal investigator still interpreted the trial as positive 1. Cancer Care Ontario’s Melanoma Disease Site Group concluded, “The precise reasons for the attenuation in overall survival are not clear. ” Most clinicians and statisticians agree that mature analysis of E1684 showed no overall survival benefit. The highly anticipated “confirmatory ” trial (E1690) was completely negative for overall survival benefit as a whole and in any subgroup of patients 2.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.037 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.037 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".