Classification problems have dominated research on boosting to date. The application of boosting to regression problems, on the other hand, has received little investigation. In this paper we develop a new boosting method for regression problems. We cast the regression problem as a classification problem and apply an interpretable form of the boosted naïve Bayes classifier. This induces a regre...

There is limited research on the links between grandparenting and adolescents' well-being, especially from the perspective of the adolescents. The study examined whether grandparent involvement varied in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step-families and whether this had a different contribution to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of adolescents across different family structures....

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of medical conditions and use of health services among young adults with Down syndrome and describe the impact of these conditions upon their lives. METHODS Using questionnaire data collected in 2011 from parents of young adults with Down syndrome we investigated the medical conditions experienced by their children in the previous 12 months. Univariate, lin...

BACKGROUND We investigated whether a public health intervention-a three-part documentary called Man Up which explored the relationship between masculinity and mental health, well-being and suicidality-could increase men's intentions to seek help for personal and emotional problems. METHODS We recruited men aged 18 years or over who were not at risk of suicide to participate in a double-blind ...