Support Vector Machine (linear kernel) and Random Forest has comparable accuracy, any reason?

Hi, I'm working on image classification using very-high-resolution image. As titled, the classification accuracy of SVM linear kernel is similar to RF. The classification used four image...

16 August 2020 1,758 11 View

How to conduct analysis for experiment data with a mediation model and time series data?

Hi everyone! I am struggling with experiment data analysis as I am not from psychology background. My key research questions are 1. The impact of leader possible self (LPS) (X1) on...

05 July 2020 6,348 3 View

Antibiotics in surgical mouse experiment?

I am trying to make protocol for Volumetric Muscle Loss experiment. I intend to remove 20% of tibialis anterior, but after surgery, I do not know what kind of antibiotic, dossage and duration I...

28 June 2020 5,873 7 View

What exact steps in signals processing do you use to condition a surface EMG to determine classification characteristics?

Sorry but it may seem like an obvious question because I am new to EMG analysis but I have been reading many papers on how various research groups clean, filter, segment, and classify muscle...

16 April 2020 4,134 1 View

Could someone help me understand FT-IR spectrum to check parallel or antiparallel beta-sheet?

I used a FT-IR machine (Nicolet 6700) to determine whether the beta-sheet we were making are parallel or anti-parallel. I am new to FT-IR so I hope someone could help me understand the spectrum I...

09 March 2019 1,215 2 View

How to use Shuffled Complex Evolution Algorithm in finding optimized parameter?

Hi everyone, Can anyone guide me how to use SCE-UA to get the optimized value of parameters, especially parameters from rainfall runoff model. I found one SCE-UA script written in matlab...

30 November 2018 1,808 2 View

What is the standard way of preparing homolog sequences for a phylogenetic analysis?

I have two protein sequences with around 50% identity between them. I want to study the phylogenetic relationship between them. I came up with a method myself: Step 1: blast each of the sequences...

11 November 2018 3,501 2 View

Any models for family decision-making?

When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, some families will decide not to let the patient know. Is there a model to explain why they do not tell the truth to patient?

16 September 2018 526 5 View

What are the principles of controlling bioinformatics procedures and balancing between screening efficiency and the risk of losing a real candidate?

I am trying to identify the point of insertion in the genome that may have caused the size difference in fruits between wild-type and mutant of a plant species (also mentioned here :...

13 October 2017 2,057 1 View

Is there a representative bias, why and why not?

24 September 2017 7,533 3 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View