A review on longitudinal data analysis with random forest

J Hu, S Szymczak - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In longitudinal studies variables are measured repeatedly over time, leading to clustered
and correlated observations. If the goal of the study is to develop prediction models …

Travelling the world of gene–gene interactions

K Van Steen - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Over the last few years, main effect genetic association analysis has proven to be a
successful tool to unravel genetic risk components to a variety of complex diseases. In the …

Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries

S Levi - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon taxes are considered a key instrument for achieving deep decarbonization but are
often unpopular among voters. While existing studies indicate that public opposition to …

Random forest for bioinformatics

Y Qi - Ensemble machine learning: Methods and applications, 2012 - Springer
Modern biology has experienced an increased use of machine learning techniques for large
scale and complex biological data analysis. In the area of Bioinformatics, the Random Forest …

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

RD Stuart-Smith, AE Bates, JS Lefcheck, JE Duffy… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Species richness has dominated our view of global biodiversity patterns for centuries,. The
dominance of this paradigm is reflected in the focus by ecologists and conservation …

Radiomics of brain MRI: utility in prediction of metastatic tumor type

HC Kniep, F Madesta, T Schneider, U Hanning… - Radiology, 2019 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate the feasibility of tumor type prediction with MRI radiomic image
features of different brain metastases in a multiclass machine learning approach for patients …

Statistical solutions for error and bias in global citizen science datasets

TJ Bird, AE Bates, JS Lefcheck, NA Hill… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Networks of citizen scientists (CS) have the potential to observe biodiversity and species
distributions at global scales. Yet the adoption of such datasets in conservation science may …

Mixed-effects random forest for clustered data

A Hajjem, F Bellavance, D Larocque - Journal of Statistical …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents an extension of the random forest (RF) method to the case of clustered
data. The proposed 'mixed-effects random forest'(MERF) is implemented using a standard …

Bacterial profile of dentine caries and the impact of pH on bacterial population diversity

N Kianoush, CJ Adler, KAT Nguyen, GV Browne… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Dental caries is caused by the release of organic acids from fermentative bacteria, which
results in the dissolution of hydroxyapatite matrices of enamel and dentine. While low …

Addressing voice recording replications for Parkinson's disease detection

L Naranjo, CJ Perez, Y Campos-Roca… - Expert Systems with …, 2016 - Elsevier
A clinical expert system has been developed for detection of Parkinson's Disease (PD). The
system extracts features from voice recordings and considers an advanced statistical …