Machine Learning is the field of scientific study that concentrates on induction algorithms and on other algorithms that can be said to “learn.” [1] In order to identify important variables in a multivariate dataset one can utilize machine learning methods. There are many different machine learning algorithms for different tasks. One ... [Read more...]

Figure 1: Spearman correlation heat map with correlation coefficient and significance levels based on the mtcars data set.In a recent paper we included data from a survey we conducted. During the publication process, one of the reviewers asked for a more in depth statistical analysis of the data set. He (... [Read more...]