Example 8.29: Risk ratios and odds ratios

When can you safely think of an odds ratio as being similar to a risk ratio?Many people find odds ratios hard to interpret, and thus would prefer to have risk ratios. In response to this, you can find several papers that purport to convert an odds rat…

Music social network on DNA microarray

The incoming 2011 KDD Cup data mining competition [1] by Yahoo! Lab posts an interesting challenge to predict the users’ ratings for individual songs out of this company’s huge music database. Unlike previous KDD Cups projects filled by tons of varia…