nowadays, water supply for sustainable development is one of the most important concerns and challenges in most countries of the world. due to determination of groundwater potential zones are one of the important tools in the conservation, management and utilization of water resources. thus, the present study aimed to prioritize the effective factors on groundwater potential and its susceptibil...

We illustrate and discuss several general issues associated with the random component of utility, or more generally ‘‘unobserved variability’’. We posit a general conceptual framework that suggests a variance components view as an appropriate structure for unobserved variability. This framework suggests that ‘‘unobserved heterogeneity’’ is only one component of unobserved variability; hence, a ...

We prove uniform consistency of Random Survival Forests (RSF), a newly introduced forest ensemble learner for analysis of right-censored survival data. Consistency is proven under general splitting rules, bootstrapping, and random selection of variables-that is, under true implementation of the methodology. Under this setting we show that the forest ensemble survival function converges uniforml...

A modern operating room (OR) provides a plethora of advanced medical devices. In order to better facilitate the information offered by them, they need to automatically react to the intra-operative context. To this end, the progress of the surgical workflow must be detected and interpreted, so that the current status can be given in machine-readable form. In this work, Random Forests (RF) and Hi...

Finding all relevant publications to perform a systematic review can be a time consuming task, especially in the field of diagnostic test accuracy. Therefore, the CLEF eHealth lab ‘technologically assisted reviews in empirical medicine’ was established to create a basis of comparison between various methods. In this paper we describe a method submitted to the lab. This method consists of a topi...

hyrcanian forests are the most valuable forests in the north of iran and industrial harvesting occurs only in this area. it is a productive region near the southern coast of caspian sea. in these forests mixed beech stands mostly shown uneven-aged structure that is managed under selection system. in order to determine the priority of uneven aged method not only from an ecological view, but also...

This paper describes our work with the data distributed for the WMT’12 Confidence Estimation shared task. Our contribution is twofold: i) we first present an analysis of the data which highlights the difficulty of the task and motivates our approach; ii) we show that using non-linear models, namely random forests, with a simple and limited feature set, succeeds in modeling the complex decisions...

Background and Objectives This study analyzed data from patients who were diagnosed with human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal (OPC) treated surgically to construct a machine learning survival prediction model.Subjects Method We retrospectively the clinico-pathological of 203 HPV-associated squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) 2007 2015.Results In Cox proportional hazard (CPH) model, ...