One of the principal goals in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the detection of local activation in the human brain. However, lack of statistical power and inflated false positive rates ...

Causal inference is important in medical research to help determine if treatments are beneficial and if natural exposures are harmful. In many settings, data collection makes causal inference ...

Gradient explosion is not a 'bug,' but a statistical reality that neural networks encounter. However, its essence is far ...

Big Data—broadly considered as datasets whose size, complexity, and heterogeneity preclude conventional approaches to storage and analysis—continues to generate interest across many scientific domains ...

Introduction About six months ago, I hit a wall while reviewing the results of an internal A/B test. When I presented the ...

All of the captive kea were given the opportunity to participate in the sampling task, but not all of them were interested. (Credit: Amalia Bastos.) Those remarkable kea are at it again: now the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...