variable importance
Class Based Variable Importance for Medical Decision Making
... the variable relationship than the top down approach of standard variable ...used variable importance measure is insightful in that it measures how strongly variables influence a lot of ...
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Early Prediction and Variable Importance of Certificate Accomplishment in a MOOC
... We can find in the literature different studies that aim at the prediction of learning outcomes of students after interacting with ITS environments [3,12]. MOOC envi- ronments are different to ITSs, e.g. the former ...
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Learning temporal weights of clinical events using variable importance
... their importance, in terms of informativeness, when building the predictive ...and importance of the clinical ...the importance, a random forest model is built using these extracted features to ...
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Stable Isotopes and Radiocarbon Assess Variable Importance of Plants and Fungi in Diets of Arctic Ground Squirrels
... To test whether these factors altered fungal consumption, we used stable isotopes to investigate arctic ground squirrel diets at two sites in northern Alaska, Toolik (primarily moist a[r] ...
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Hillslope characteristics as controls of subsurface flow variability
... spatially variable SSF dynamics at our study site has to be ...the variable importance during tree model construction was ...higher variable im- portance and there were few cases with low but ...
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Subgroup Analysis via Recursive Partitioning
... Subgroup analysis is an integral part of comparative analysis where assessing the treatment effect on a response is of central interest. Its goal is to determine the heterogeneity of the treatment effect across ...
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Predicting motor learning performance from Electroencephalographic data
... The figure shows the variable importance values for all ICs in the baseline phase per subject.... The figure shows the variable importance values for all ICs in the planning phase per su[r] ...
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Applying Multi-Output Random Forest Models to Electricity Price Forecast
... Removing variables that have a negative effect on the joint function error (as identified in the variable importance analysis explained in subsection 4.1) results in a reduction in both price and demand ...
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Aging Stormwater Infrastructure: An Exploration of the Evolution of Aging Bioretention Media, Hydrologic Mitigation, and Water Quality Performance.
... Analysis proved that the default number of trees, 500, was sufficient to stablize the models constructed herein. RF models seek to reduce error by adjusting the number of predictor variables considered for prediction in ...
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Profiling alumni of a Brazilian public dental school
... The variable importance for cluster segmentation was ranked by a Chi-square test in which each cluster group was tested against the overall ...alternative importance measure, which has the advantage ...
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A global model of avian influenza prediction in wild birds: the importance of northern regions
... each variable ’ s range of values we plotted density using Spotfire S+ (TIBCO, ...response variable after averaging the noise of non-relevant pre- dictors ...a variable ’ s effect is best understood ...
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A SUCCESFULL WAY TO SELL HANDICRAFTS IN ALBANIA: EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF WEB MARKETING
... This article intends to explore role of web marketing in the sale of handicrafts in Albania. This connection between these two concepts is based on analysis of data collected from craft units in Albania. This research ...
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The Relationship Between GHR Recruitment And Employee Engagement In Jordanian Public Universities
... the importance of the independent variable of GRH recruitment practices such as recruitment resources, recruitment strategy, recruitment ethics, and recruitment sources quality ...the importance ...
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Identification of Conserved and Variable Structures in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus gp120 Glycoprotein of Importance for CXCR4 Binding
... Although the ability of HIV-1 mutants to infect cells ex- pressing CD4 and CXCR4 has been studied (11, 33, 35, 58, 60, 69, 71), direct studies of the binding of HIV-1 gp120 to CXCR4 have been hampered by the nonspecific ...
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The role of the most recent prior period's price in value relevance studies : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Finance at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... explanatory variable, value relevance models can be misspecified due to a missing variable problem, since current trailing earnings can act as a proxy for the strong forward-looking information provided by ...
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Flux weakening control of Permanent Magnet Machine based aircraft electric starter generator
... This paper presents control analysis and design for an aircraft electric starter-generator system based on a Permanent Magnet Machine (PMM) operated in Flux-Weakening mode (FW). The focus is on detailed stability ...
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Government support and firm financial performance: New evidence from a transitional economy
... These results show the importance of controlling for unobservable characteristics and also imply that past firm financial performance is a vital variable in considering the dynamic natur[r] ...
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"Tied together like a woven hat:" Protective pathways to Alaska native sobriety
... the importance of culture as proximal variable [48] in research that seeks to understand sobriety and alcohol abuse with American Indians and Alaska ...critical variable in protective outcomes [53], ...
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Wildlife and Livestock Grazing Effects on Some Physical and Chemical Soil Properties (Case Study: Kalmand-Bahadoran Arid Rangelands of Yazd Province)
... the importance and necessity of identifying soil properties in arid rangeland management, and the variable effects of different kinds of herbivores on soil, this study compares some of the physical and ...
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Urban Growth Determinants for the State of Kelantan Opinions of the State's Policy Makers
... The results obtained in this study reflect the importance of each variable within the as~ociated groups as well as amongst all variables in all groups. A favourahle[r] ...
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