Monthly Archives: January 2016

Small area estimates by others in PHM

Article alert
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The following new article has just been published in Population Health Metrics

Research
Small area synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence during pregnancy in England
Szatkowski L, Fahy S, Coleman T, Taylor J, Twigg L, Moon G, Leonardi-Bee J
Population Health Metrics 2015, 13 :34 (9 December 2015)

http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/13/1/34

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To read: EnsembleMatrix paper

EnsembleMatrix: Interactive Visualization to Support Machine Learning with Multiple Classifiers http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/publications/CHI2009-EnsembleMatrix.pdf

I want one

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Vaccine Confidence blog reminds me of a reddit IamA

Both linked here for future reference:

Ode to Charles Darwin

Ode to Charles Darwin

IamA Human Guinea Pig Getting the Newest Ebola Vaccine AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2gnn1r/iama_human_guinea_pig_getting_the_newest_ebola/

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Cool project/resource: Lab in the Wild

http://www.labinthewild.org/studies/color_age/#null

Also, they think I am young.

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Beyond the Sum-Difference Plot

Bland–Altman plot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bland–Altman plot example
A Bland–Altman plot (Difference plot) in analytical chemistry and biostatistics is a method of data plotting used in analyzing the agreement between two different assays. It is identical to a Tukey mean-difference plot, the name by which it is known in other fields, but was popularised in medical statistics by J. Martin Bland and Douglas G. Altman.[1][2]

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Brief survey on sequence classification

hi Abie,

It was great speaking with you. This is the paper I was talking about.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1882478

Looking forward to know more about each other’s work.

Thanks,

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Using the sklearn grid_search tools

Scikit-learn has a really nice grid search module. It will soon be called model_selection, because it has grown beyond simple grid search. But here is the spirit of it:

import sklearn.svm, sklearn.grid_search, sklearn.datasets.samples_generator
parameters = {'kernel':('poly', 'rbf'), 'C':[.01, .1, 1, 10, 100]}
clf = sklearn.grid_search.GridSearchCV(
    sklearn.svm.SVC(probability=True),
    parameters,
    n_jobs=64)
X, y = sklearn.datasets.samples_generator.make_classification(n_samples=200, n_features=5, random_state=12345)
clf.fit(X, y)
clf.best_params_

And say you want to take a careful look at the results? They are all in there, too. http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/aflaxman/cb0660e602d361d06599

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To read in JAMA: Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012

Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2467552

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