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On Sep 3, 2013 5:04 PM, "Soledad De Esteban Trivigno [via R]" <
ml-node+s789695n4675267h14@n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> Dear colleague:
>
> Registration is open for the course CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES
> AND
> NEURAL NETWORKS WITH R - Second Edition.
>
> INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Llorenç Badiella (UAB, Spain), Dr. Joan Valls
> (Biomedical
> Research Institute of Lleida, Spain) and Dr. Montserrat Martínez-Alonso
> (Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Spain).
>
> DATES: November 4-7, 2013; 24 teaching hours.
>
> PLACE:  Premises of Sabadell of the Institut Català de Paleontologia
> Miquel
> Crusafont,  Sabadell,  Barcelona (Spain).
>
> Organized by: Transmitting Science and the Institut Catalá de
> Paleontologia
> Miquel  Crusafont.
>
> More information: http://www.transmittingscience.org/cart_with_r.htm or
> writing
> to [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4675267&i=0>
>
> The main goal of the methods such as CART (Classification and Regression
> Trees),
> is to model and predict one response variable explained by a set of
> dependent
> variables. This methods can be particularly effective to model
> interactions
> between explanatory variables. On the other hand, as a statistical model,
> a
> neural network is based on linear and non-linear combinations of
> explanatory
> variables that interact with other combinations to predict or explain an
> outcome
> variable. Both CART and neural networks methods can provide good results
> to
> explain or predict an outcome variable, particularly when the number of
> interactions is important. Nevertheless, these techniques also tend to
> over-fit
> the data and a validation of the models is required. ROC methods,
> including a
> sensitivity/specificity analyses and/or external validations can be
> performed to
> assess the consistency of these techniques. Applications cover a wide
> range of
> problems, including species classification in biology, prediction of the
> prognosis of a patient in biomedicine, etc.
>
> Please feel free to distribute this information between your colleagues if
> you
> consider it appropriate.
>
> With best regards
>
> Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
> Academic Director
> [hidden email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4675267&i=1>
> Transmitting Science
> www.transmittingscience.org
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