There is ongoing concern that extended exposure to cell phone electromagnetic radiation could be related to an increased risk of negative health effects. Epidemiological studies seek to assess this ...

Kenya’s food markets are known for extreme volatility influenced by weather shocks, inflation, currency fluctuations, and ...

Journal of Population Research, Vol. 28, No. 2/3, Local and Small Area Modelling (2011), pp. 185-201 (17 pages) This study revisits a spatial regression approach for small-area population forecasting ...

Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

Department of Health and Aging Australia. The Review of the AR-DRG Classification System Development Process: Brisbane, QLD, Australia: PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2009. 2. Klein-Hitpass U, ...

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

This paper investigates whether classification and regression trees ensemble algorithms such as bagging, random forests and boosting improve on traditional parametric models for forecasting the equity ...

Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...

During the course of operation, businesses accumulate all kinds of data such as numbers related to sales performance and profit, and information about clients. Companies often seek out employees with ...