Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security Lately, I have been bemused by reports of “cheating investigations” which have uncovered “pervasive test fraud” in school systems throughout the country. The investigations were data-mining enterprises which found anomalous data. [Data mining is the intensive review of a large amount of data looking for “interesting” [...]

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Written by Dr. John Fremer Ph.D., President of Caveon Consulting Services Lose some weight? Stop smoking? Be more patient?  These appear on many lists of New Year’s resolutions, but they were not proposed when I asked my Caveon colleagues what we should commit to doing as a company to increase the value of our services [...]

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Written By: Dennis Maynes, Chief Scientist, Caveon Test Security I am a great fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories. And, I am not alone. Arthur Conan Doyle is consistently among the top ten downloaded authors at Project Gutenberg. A while ago I wondered: “What does Sherlock Holmes offer toward data forensics inference concerning cheating?” I [...]

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