Meta-analyses are increasingly popular. It is unknown whether this popularity is driven by specific countries and specific meta-analyses types. PubMed was used to identify meta-analyses since 1995 (last update 9/1/2012) and catalogue their types and country of origin. We focused more on meta-analyses from China (the current top producer of meta-analyses) versus the USA (top producer until recen...

Construction defects are major components that result in negative impacts on project performance including schedule delays and cost overruns. Since construction defects generally occur when a few associated causes combine, a thorough understanding of defect causality is required in order to more systematically prevent construction defects. To address this issue, this paper uses association rule...

UNLABELLED We describe a software tool to perform haplotype-based association analysis, for quantitative and qualitative traits, in population and family samples, using single nucleotide polymorphism or multiallelic marker data. A range of tests is offered: omnibus and haplotype-specific tests; prospective and retrospective likelihoods; covariates and moderators; sliding window analyses; permut...

Giyen a set of individuals (be they people, paddocks, or pumpkins) each possessing a number of attributes, one can arbitrarily classify them into a number of related but distinct non-overlapping groups. However, there are two major difficullies: effecting the classification and justifying it before one's colleagues. In ecological circles one has no trouble in finding sets of more than a thousan...

Formal Concept Analysis "FCA" is a data analysis method which enables to discover hidden knowledge existing in data. A kind of hidden knowledge extracted from data is association rules. Different quality measures were reported in the literature to extract only relevant association rules. Given a dataset, the choice of a good quality measure remains a challenging task for a user. Given a quality...

Considering teaching and education, the challenges we face daily are increasingly relevant, for all agents involved. Given the time that children spend in school, a good pedagogical relationship, between teachers and students, is very important in the development of children. So, teachers seek for strategies to make the process of teaching and learning more engaging for students, and more rewar...

One of the main issues in Web usage mining is the discovery of patterns in the navigational behavior of Web users. Standard approaches, such as clustering of users’ sessions and discovering association rules or frequent navigational paths, do not generally allow to characterize or quantify the unobservable factors that lead to common navigational patterns. Therefore, it is necessary to develop ...

Market Basket Analysis often involves applying the de facto association rule mining method on massive sales transaction data. In this paper, we argue that association rule mining is not always the most suitable method for analysing big market-basket data. This is because the data matrix to be used for association rule mining is usually large and sparse, resulting in sluggish generation of many ...

The state version of the recovery experience questionnaire: A multilevel confirmatory factor analysis Arnold B. Bakker, Ana I. Sanz-Vergel, Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz & Wido G. M. Oerlemans a Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands b Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China c Norwich Business School, U...