Chapter 6
Rules of Thumb
6.1 The Big Picture
This chapter contains rules of thumb: advice and guidelines. Each of them has a catchy title in hopes that you’ll remember it as a slogan. Figure 6.1 lists these eight rules of thumb.
Figure 6.1.
Eight rules of thumb.
6.2 Why and When to Follow Rules of Thumb?
These rules of thumb are my current attempt to synthesize the current state of knowledge into a more unified whole. In some cases I refer to empirical studies, in others I make arguments based on my own experience, and some have been proposed in previous work. They are not set in stone; indeed, they are deeply incomplete. The characterization ...
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