BMJ

Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data

Objectives Approximately one in eight practices in primary care in England are ‘dispensing practices’ with an in-house dispensary providing medication directly to patients. These practices can ...
The Lancet

Joint probability framework for the development and validation of a prognostic model for the conditional outcome of quality of life: a retrospective study in historical ...

eInstitute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University Medical Centre of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany fUniversity Cancer Center at University Medical ...
BMJ

Cardiac rehabilitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a whole-population study

Background Evidence on cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is limited. We examined CR participation across England before, during and after the COVID-19 ...
TMCnet

Data Normalization vs. Standardization: What's the Difference and When to Use Each

Data Normalization vs. Standardization is one of the most foundational yet often misunderstood topics in machine learning and data preprocessing. If you’ve ever built a predictive model, worked on a ...
C&EN

Development of Pesticide-Likeness Scores and Models for Predicting Pesticide Activity of Molecular Scaffolds with Machine Learning

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Non-Commercial (NC): Only non-commercial uses of the work are permitted. No ...
Investopedia

Multiple Linear Regression (MLR): Definition, Uses, & Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
BMJ

Advancing Alzheimer’s disease risk prediction: development and validation of a machine learning-based preclinical screening model in a cross-sectional study

Objectives Alzheimer’s disease (AD) poses a significant challenge for individuals aged 65 and older, being the most prevalent form of dementia. Although existing AD risk prediction tools demonstrate ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Logistic Regression with Batch SGD Training and Weight Decay Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end program that explains how to perform binary classification (predicting a variable with two possible discrete values) using ...