On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we speak with filmmaker Xander Robin about his new documentary “The Python Hunt.” The film examines the rise of Burmese pythons as “exotic pets” that ...

Instrumental variables (IV) estimation addresses endogeneity arising when an explanatory variable correlates with the error term, biasing ordinary least squares (OLS ...

Abstract: Treatment effect estimation from observational data is a fundamental problem in causal inference, and its critical challenge is to address the confounding bias arising from the confounders.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

If you’re new to Python, one of the first things you’ll encounter is variables and data types. Understanding how Python handles data is essential for writing clean, efficient, and bug-free programs.

For the most part, it’s the lyrics of a song that we remember most. A song really only needs a catchy chorus to be a hit. But, every so often, there is a musician who can create an instrumental break ...

The terms Agile and estimations don't align perfectly. Agile is all about responding to change rather than following a plan, while accurate estimations require a fixed plan that doesn't change. It's a ...

Many scientific datasets are compositional in nature. Important biological examples include species abundances in ecology, cell-type compositions derived from single-cell sequencing data, and amplicon ...

The ISCHEMIA Trial randomly assigned patients with ischemic heart disease to an invasive treatment strategy centered on revascularization with a control group assigned non-invasive medical therapy. As ...

Variables that are created outside of a function (as in all of the examples in the previous article are known as global variables.Global variables can be used by everyone, both inside of functions and ...