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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural ...

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Discover how white-tailed deer are changing New Hampshire's forests and learn about efforts to control this destructive pest using slash.

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DNA science has helped solve criminal cases for decades. But increasingly, investigative genetic genealogy — which was first ...