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Article summary III

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Summary Following the report that detailed numerous problems with the data, Baggerly and Coombes identified the 5 things that should be supplied when article...

Article summary II

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Summary Baggerly and Coombes examined several related papers purporting to use microarray-based signatures of drug sensitivity derived from cell lines to pre...

Article summary I

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Summary David Donoho’s “50 Years of Data Science” provided very thoughtful retrospectives and perspectives on data science and how it relates to Statistics. ...

Article summary XIV

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Summary t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (usually called t-SNE), proposed by van der Maaten and Hinton in 2008, is an unsupervised, non-linear tec...

Article summary XIII

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Summary In the paper: “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”, Leo Breiman, the creator of the random forest algorithm, describes two contrasting approaches...