Machine learning, a tool increasingly used for the discovery and design of new materials, has now been adopted by researchers to design polymer brush films with desirable protein adsorption properties ...

Relative importance of regressor variables is an old topic that still awaits a satisfactory solution. When interest is in attributing importance in linear regression, averaging over orderings methods ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 4 (August 2015), pp. 1716-1741 (26 pages) Random forests are a learning algorithm proposed by Breiman [Mach. Learn. 45 (2001) 5-32] that combines several ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Identifying causal relationships from observational data is not easy. Still, ...

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread across the world, vast amounts of bioinformatics data have been created and analyzed, and logistic regression models have been key to ...