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Comments on "Factors associated with the spatial heterogeneity of the first wave of COVID-19 in France: a nationwide geo-epidemiological study" by Gaudart et al
José A. Ferreira
In a recent paper, Jean Gaudart and colleagues studied the factors associated with the spatial heterogeneity of the first wave of COVID-19 in France. We make some critical comments…
Models under which random forests perform badly; consequences for applications
José A. Ferreira
We give examples of data-generating models under which Breiman's random forest may be extremely slow to converge to the optimal predictor or even fail to be consistent. The evidenc…
Causality from the Point of View of Statistics
José A. Ferreira
We present a basis for studying questions of cause and effect in statistics which subsumes and reconciles the models proposed by Pearl, Robins, Rubin and others, and which, as far…
On the Benjamini--Hochberg method
J. A. Ferreira, A. H. Zwinderman
We investigate the properties of the Benjamini--Hochberg method for multiple testing and of a variant of Storey's generalization of it, extending and complementing the asymptotic a…