Background Deterministic variables are variables that are fully explained by one or more parent variables. They are extremely common in the health and social sciences, typically arising in the ...

Background: Directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs, are a useful graphical tool in epidemiologic research that can help identify appropriate analytical strategies in addition to potential unintended ...

Abstract: Checkpoint/Restart (C/R) has been widely deployed in numerous HPC systems, Clouds, and industrial data centers, which are typically operated by system engineers. Nevertheless, there is no ...

Background: The objective of this study was to build models that define variables contributing to pneumonia risk by applying supervised Machine Learning (ML) to medical and oral disease data to define ...

1 Department of Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel 2 The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBR), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel This ...

Abstract: Several estimation methods have been proposed for identifying errors-in-variables systems, where both input and output measurements are corrupted by noise. One of the promising approaches is ...

Background: Early interventions during the “window of opportunity” have been shown to improve clinical outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, intensive treatment can induce toxicity so ...