Table 3.
Confidence scoring.
| Rule | SMC production of PDGF-AB (stress dependent) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relevant papers | Researcher 1 | Researcher 2 | ||
| Li et al. (1995) | Ma et al. (1999) | Li et al. (1995) | Ma et al. (1999) | |
| 1. Article agreement | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| 2. Physiological methods | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| 3a. Same species | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3b. Same organ | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 3c. Same cell type | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 3d. Same in vivo state | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| 3. Similarity metric total: | 6.25 | 6.25 | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| 4a. Numerical | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 4b. Measured directly | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| 4c. Many data points | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 4. Data type total | 6.33 | 7 | 5.67 | 5.67 |
| Average confidence | 4.65 | 6.06 | 6.04 | 6.04 |
| Composite score | 5.36 | 6.04 | ||
Example of confidence scoring for an ABM rule determining the amount of PDGF-AB produced by SMC as a function of circumferential stress. If the category had multiple subcategories, only the average was used (e.g., 3 and 4) to calculate the average confidence. The average confidence values for all the literary references making up a rule were then averaged to give the composite score for any given researcher.