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ComputingComputer ScienceInformation RetrievalPerformance AnalysisPerformance MeasurementComparative Performance AnalysisData AnalysisEvaluation Of Retrieval SystemsPerformance EvaluationPerformance MeasuresQuery ProcessingTrec EvaluationTrec Evaluation Framework
A statistical analysis of the TREC-3 data shows that performance differences across queries is greater than performance differences across participant runs. Generally, groups of runs which do not differ significantly at large, sometimes accounting for over half the runs. Correlation among the various performance measures is high. 1.