Publications

Classification and Regression by randomForest

Recently there has been a lot of interest in “ensemble learning” — methods that generate many classifiers and aggregate their results. Two well-known methods are boosting (see, ...

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

Abstract Summary: The multiplex capability and high yield of current day DNA-sequencing instruments has made bacterial whole genome sequencing a routine affair. The subsequent d...

Law and Finance

This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the quality of their enforcement in 49 countries. The...

The genetical theory of natural selection

We need scarcely add that the contemplation in natural science of a wider domain than the actual leads to a far better understanding of the actual.' (p. 267,The, Nature of the P...

The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

First, the span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember. ...

CAPITAL ASSET PRICES: A THEORY OF MARKET EQUILIBRIUM UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK*

One of the problems which has plagued those attempting to predict the behavior of capital markets is the absence of a body of positive microeconomic theory dealing with conditio...

The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.

First, the span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember. ...

On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance

ABSTRACT Using a sample free of survivor bias, I demonstrate that common factors in stock returns and investment expenses almost completely explain persistence in equity mutual ...

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

Molecular portraits of human breast tumours

Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that cha...

GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism

Journal Article GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism Get access M. Raymond, M. Raymond Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, URA C...