The discharge of septic tank effluent onto highly permeable soils may lead to nutrients entering the groundwater or flowing laterally from the site to pollute local streams. Seven domestic dwellings in a small village in northern New South Wales (NSW) were refurbished with new septic tank systems, and individual on-site land application systems were constructed to reduce the high risks of conta...

AdaBoost !5] is a well-known ensemble learning algorithm that constructs its constituent or base models in sequence. A key step ill AdaBoost is constructing a distribution over the training examples to crette each base model. This distribution, represented as a vector, is constructed to be orthogonal to the vector of mistakes made by tLe previous base model in the sequence [6]. The idea is to m...

Although averaging is a simple technique, it plays an important role in reducing variance. We use this essential property of averaging in regression of the DNA microarray data, which poses the challenge of having far more features than samples. In this paper, we introduce a two-step procedure that combines (1) hierarchical clustering and (2) Lasso. By averaging the genes within the clusters obt...