How can closely related mental illnesses with similar symptoms be reliably distinguished from one another? As part of a ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

Financial decisions often involve many criteria. It can be difficult to choose among several options that differ according to multiple criteria, some of which favor each option. A decision matrix ...

As much as we want to complete everything on our never-ending to-do lists, we also are aware that there are only so many hours in the day—or so much energy to go around. When you’re not sure how to ...

The cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hϋbner) is one of the most important pests affecting crop production globally. The data-mining technique, for predicting pest incidence using biotic and ...