Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued new guidance aimed at strengthening the statistical validity of ...

Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death worldwide. Less than half the people with high blood pressure are aware of their diagnosis, and only ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered ...

Introduction Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive condition involving movement and muscle tone difficulties due to injury to the developing brain. Most cases arise around birth, but a smaller ...

In the study Making It Look Green: Big Data Analytics, External Pressure, and Corporate Greenwashing, published in the journal Sustainability, researchers find that firms with stronger big data ...

Getting enough sleep may be more important for heart health than many busy professionals realize. A new multicenter study ...

Binge drinking is defined as more than five drinks for men, and more than four for women, on a single occasion over the course of a couple of hours, the good folks at the Orange County Health Care ...

Introduction Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14%–20% of global suicides. South Korea banned paraquat and eight ...

Survival analysis anticipates the expected lifespans of individuals as well as the timing of other events. Learn about its pros and cons.

A majority of counties experienced growth in penetration of Medicare value-based approaches: Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) accountable care organizations (ACOs) and Medicare Advantage (MA).