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      "title": "Does Quality Assurance need Quality Assurance?",
      "authors": "Hattemer‐Apostel, Rita",
      "journal": "The Quality Assurance Journal",
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      "doi": "10.1002/qaj.395",
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      "title": "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning",
      "authors": "Bishop, C. M.",
      "journal": "Springer",
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      "pubmed": null,
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      "url": "https://link.springer.com/book/9780387310732"
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      "title": "The Elements of Statistical Learning",
      "authors": "Hastie, T.; Tibshirani, R.; Friedman, J.",
      "journal": "Springer",
      "year": "2009",
      "pubmed": null,
      "doi": "10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7"
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      "title": "Deep Learning",
      "authors": "Goodfellow, I.; Bengio, Y.; Courville, A.",
      "journal": "MIT Press",
      "year": "2016",
      "pubmed": null,
      "doi": null,
      "url": "https://www.deeplearningbook.org/"
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