Letter to the EditorOne EEG, one read – A manifesto towards reducing interrater variability among experts
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Disclosures
Dr. Westover is co-founder of Beacon Biosignals, which played no role in this work. The other authors report no disclosures relevant to this manuscript. This work was not funded.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgements
We thank Dr. Daniel Kahneman and Dr. Olivier Sibony for invaluable discussions about level noise and pattern noise.
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