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Immune response decays over time, and vaccine-induced protection often wanes. Understanding how vaccine efficacy changes over time is critical to guiding the development and application of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases. The objective of this article is to develop statistical methods that assess the effect of decaying immune responses on the risk of disease and…
Data mining is analyzing enormous amounts of information and datasets, extracting (or “mining”) helpful intelligence to help organizations solve problems, predict trends, mitigate risks, and find new opportunities. Data mining is like actual mining because, in both cases, the miners are sifting through mountains of material to find valuable resources and elements. Data mining also includes…
Bayesian data analysis is now an established part of the lexicon in contemporary applied statistics and machine learning. There is now a wealth of practical know-how to complement the continued development and increasing access to Bayesian models, algorithms and software. There is also a weighty body of published case studies that testify to the successful…
Databricks is a data analytics platform that simplifies data engineering, data science, and machine learning. More and more job opportunities are becoming available to data engineers and other professionals who know about or want to learn Databricks. To help you get the upper hand during an interview, I have created this guide to prepare you…
We discuss methods of measuring the treatment effects of a unit through the use of other units in panel data by either the factor-based (FB) approach or the linear projection (LP) approach under different sample configurations of cross-sectional dimension N and time series dimension T. We show that the LP approach in general yields smaller mean square prediction…
Data and analytics are increasingly being used to help maximize fan experiences and for team owners to determine the value of players, but also to enhance player safety. The recent episode of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin going into cardiac arrest brought into focus the role analytics could play in spotting player injuries in real time to…