Regression to the mean
Exploring regression to the mean
Recent posts
Different lists
Exploring the differences between lists in Go and Elixir
Como criptografar seu computador com LUKS e TPM + senha
Tutorial de como criptografar um disco com LUKS, TPM + senha no Linux
Como configurar e usar um cluster de Apache Spark em sua rede local
Tutorial de como transformar seu computador antigo em um servidor com Apache Spark e Apache Hadoop
Survival analysis with Cox reggression - heart failure data
Last time, we used decision trees, binarization and logistic regression to predict heart failure mortality in a public dataset. Here, we’ll use Cox regressio...
The power of simple models: predicting heart failure mortality
Accurately predicting the risk of mortality in hospitals and health care services is really important. However, biology is noisy and predictive models can ea...
O que NÃO É a eficácia de uma vacina
O que exatamente é a eficácia de uma vacina? Esse número se tornou muito popular, mas nem todas as interpretações sobre ele estão corretas.
What are NOT p-values?
What exactly is a p-value? Let’s define the p-value and then look at what it is not.
Por que novas cloroquinas virão
Nós devemos focar em explicar por que terapias ineficazes podem parecer serem muito eficazes e mostrar os benefícios de ensaios clínicos de qualidade.
Why new hydroxichloroquines will come
We should focus on explaining why ineffective therapies can appear to be very effective and show the benefits of proper clinical trials.
The basics of outlier detection
This post is intended to explain the basics of outlier detection and removal and, more specifically, to highlight some common mistakes.
Twitter sentiment classification - Part 2
This is the part 2 of a series, please read part 1 before reading this.
Twitter sentiment classification - Part 1
Sentiment classification is somewhat of a trend in NLP; it consists of classifying small texts according to its sentiment connotation: a positive or negative...
Exploratory data analysis: the WHO suicide dataset
Exploratory data analysis is essential to construct hypothesis. Today we’ll explore the WHO Suicide Statistics database (version from Kaggle). It consists of...
Exploring Fractals With Pytorch
FracLac is a great package for fractal analysis in ImageJ. Unfortunately, no similar Python package is available. There are pieces of code that perform the b...
Battleship Heuristics
Recently, I stumbled upon a very interesting blog post and a Reddit thread about an algorithm to play battleship in the best possible way. The blog post, how...