Here’s a new title that is a “must have” for any data scientist who uses the R language. It’s a wonderful learning resource for tree-based techniques in statistical learning, one that’s become my ...

What do a river, earthquakes and the internet have in common? If you asked statistics professor Ilya Zaliapin, he would tell you the answer is tree graphs (or, simply – trees). “Research-wise, I am ...

Biological researchers face an explosion of data arising from human genome projects and recent high throughput experiments. There are many traditional techniques for analyzing data, including ...

Classification and regression tree (CART) methods are a class of data mining techniques which constitute an alternative approach to classical regression. CART methods are frequently used in ...

This special report introduces small area estimation as a modern approach for producing reliable, stand-level forest ...