News tagged with regression methods

GPS helps locate soil erosion pathways

Grassed waterways are placed in agricultural fields where runoff water tends to concentrate because they can substantially reduce soil erosion. Mapping techniques that help identify where erosion channels will likely form ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Game on: Sports Analytics Conference produces a growing avalanche of quantitative research

Imagine if your hobby became your profession — or, indeed, if it started a whole new profession.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Low-cost instrument developed by students could aid weather research

On a recent blustery afternoon, scientists gathered on a rooftop at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to observe two atmospheric electric field-mill devices monitor the buildup of electrical charge ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aiding cancer therapy by mathematically modeling tumor-immune interactions

Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research expected to help utility companies predict service life of pipelines

Regression models presented in the American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal of Infrastructure Systems by researchers at Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are expected to hel ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracing an elusive killer parasite in Peru

Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics.

Biology / Other

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Obama: Our 22nd greatest president?

As if President Barack Obama doesn't already have enough to worry about, a statistical analysis of presidential ranking surveys suggests that he is likely to be viewed as an "average" president by expert evaluators if he ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 100

The structure-based design of zinc finger nucleases can facilitate genomic editing

A recent study carried out at the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China-Research, and published in the May 2011 issue of Science China Life Sciences (Issue 54) de ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hurricane damage to forests: Scientists study impacts on carbon cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of carbon emissions that exacerbate global climate change most of us probably think of the exhaust from automobiles and other vehicles, or smoke billowing from rows of stacks ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research shows using leaves' characteristics improves accuracy measuring past climates

A study led by Baylor University geologists shows that a new method that uses different size and shape traits of leaves to reconstruct past climates over the last 120 million years is more accurate than other current methods.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New technology to predict future appearance

A Concordia graduate student has designed a promising computer program that could serve as a new tool in missing-child investigations and matters of national security. Khoa Luu has developed a more effective computer-based ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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