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Learning Mortality Risk For Covid-19 Using Machine Learning And Statistical Methods, Shaoshi Zhang Dec 2023

Learning Mortality Risk For Covid-19 Using Machine Learning And Statistical Methods, Shaoshi Zhang

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This research investigates the mortality risk of COVID-19 patients across different variant waves, using the data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) websites. By analyzing the available data, including patient medical records, vaccination rates, and hospital capacities, we aim to discern patterns and factors associated with COVID-19-related deaths.

To explore features linked to COVID-19 mortality, we employ different techniques such as Filter, Wrapper, and Embedded methods for feature selection. Furthermore, we apply various machine learning methods, including support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, logistic regression, K-nearest neighbours, na¨ıve Bayes methods, and artificial neural networks, to uncover underlying …


A Computational Framework For Identifying Relevant Cell Types And Specific Regulatory Mechanisms In Schizophrenia Using Data Integration Methods, Kayvan Shabani Apr 2023

A Computational Framework For Identifying Relevant Cell Types And Specific Regulatory Mechanisms In Schizophrenia Using Data Integration Methods, Kayvan Shabani

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Combining multiple data types can help researchers gain deeper insight into the subject of the study compared to analyzing only one dataset in many cases. Biological researchers can also benefit from these methods of integration. For instance, GWAS data that gives information about variations in the DNA cannot provide us with much information about the specific biological components that are significant in the trait of interest. However, when combined with sequencing data such as chromatin accessibility data or gene expression data, they can help us find the significant biological elements in the trait of interest. In this study, I perform …


Early-Warning Alert Systems For Financial-Instability Detection: An Hmm-Driven Approach, Xing Gu Apr 2022

Early-Warning Alert Systems For Financial-Instability Detection: An Hmm-Driven Approach, Xing Gu

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Regulators’ early intervention is crucial when the financial system is experiencing difficulties. Financial stability must be preserved to avert banks’ bailouts, which hugely drain government's financial resources. Detecting in advance periods of financial crisis entails the development and customisation of accurate and robust quantitative techniques. The goal of this thesis is to construct automated systems via the interplay of various mathematical and statistical methodologies to signal financial instability episodes in the near-term horizon. These signal alerts could provide regulatory bodies with the capacity to initiate appropriate response that will thwart or at least minimise the occurrence of a financial crisis. …


Exploratory Search With Archetype-Based Language Models, Brent D. Davis Aug 2021

Exploratory Search With Archetype-Based Language Models, Brent D. Davis

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This dissertation explores how machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval may assist the exploratory search task. Exploratory search is a search where the ideal outcome of the search is unknown, and thus the ideal language to use in a retrieval query to match it is unavailable. Three algorithms represent the contribution of this work. Archetype-based Modeling and Search provides a way to use previously identified archetypal documents relevant to an archetype to form a notion of similarity and find related documents that match the defined archetype. This is beneficial for exploratory search as it can generalize beyond standard …