A three-sided network effect between authors, institutions, and #journals dominates the current #research #publication industry. Institutions and authors want to publish in well-known journals, while journals want to publish works of well-known authors (and institutions) who have published in well-known journals. This can lead to self-fulfilling #prophecies. #PaperScore aims to break this outdated ecosystem by completely #decentralizing the #peerreview process. Moreover, the current ecosystem allows #editors to select #reviewers or reject a submission without any peer review. They also make the final decision on each submission. But like all people, editors are also susceptible to #biases. As a result, journals are subject to a number of #editorial biases. Such biases are reinforced if the editors are always succeeded by those who have #published in the journal before. #scientificresearch #researchpublication #publications #revolutionary
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PaperScore is the first Decentralized Academic Journal and publication platform that replaces the editorial board with a collective intelligence algorithm. This algorithm is implemented in a computer code and controls the review process. PaperScore accepts manuscripts from all disciplines, particularly from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. The current research publication industry is locked into a three-sided network effect between authors, institutions, and journals. Institutions and authors want to publish in well-known journals, while journals want to publish works of well-known authors and institutions who have published in well-known journals. This can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. Furthermore, many valuable research findings and studies are not published due to some editorial biases such as Significance Bias and Discipline Bias. PaperScore provides a home for such homeless studies and papers. PaperScore aims to break this obsolete ecosystem by completely decentralizing the review process. Once an author submits a manuscript to PaperScore, the backend code randomly selects up to five potential reviewers based on the manuscript’s keywords, citations, and referrals. Each potential reviewer receives an email and decides whether or not to evaluate the manuscript. Reviewers also have the option to refer manuscripts to other potential reviewers they deem to be experts. The next person will also have the same option. Based on the small-world phenomenon, each chain will get to a suitable reviewer in fewer than six referrals on average. Most likely, it will be fewer than three referrals if there are proper incentives and a purposeful randomization formula incorporates relevant information.
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This article explores how integrating blockchain technology can revolutionize the education sector. It highlights the key features of blockchain, such as immutability, reliability, transparency, and trust, which address long-standing challenges in record-keeping, evaluations, and digital certification. Blockchain provides a secure, decentralized, and efficient way to manage student records, ensure transparent assessments, issue digital certificates, and streamline university admissions. As e-learning expands, blockchain offers a solution to safeguard data integrity and improve educational administrative processes. #Blockchain #Education #EdTech #DigitalTransformation #Elearning #Innovation
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While correlation is symmetric, regression is not, even with one predictor. Let’s consider regressing y on x: y = 𝛼 + 𝛽.x + 𝜀 And regressing x on y: x = 𝛾 + 𝛿.y + 𝜂 Since 𝛽 = Cov(x,y) / Var(x) , and 𝛿 = Cov(x,y) / Var(y) , hence 𝛽.𝛿 = 𝜌² , which means 𝛽 ≠ 1/𝛿 unless x and y are perfectly correlated ( 𝜌 = 1). However, the p-values for 𝛽 and 𝛿 are the same. This is because the t-statistic depends only on the correlation (𝜌) and the sample size (n): t = 𝜌 . sqrt(n-2) / sqrt(1- 𝜌²) Moreover, since R² = 𝜌² and F = t² , they also remain unchanged between the regressions. This means that if one regression finds a significant relationship, so will the other. This results in equivalent hypothesis testing outcomes, which allows flexibility in model setup in exploratory research when you are not sure which variable is dependent and which is independent. (By "allows", I mean you may get away with it!) Nevertheless, when adding control or other independent variables, the choice of which variable to regress on the others becomes crucial. The decision is no longer arbitrary because it should be based on which variable’s variance can be explained by the others. This should be determined by the underlying plausible causal relationships and temporal precedence among the variables. Temporal precedence is necessary (but not sufficient) for causal inference. It refers to the logical ordering of events, where the cause must precede the effect. The variables believed to cause the effect should be treated as the independent variables. For example, it would be appropriate to regress income on demographic factors like age and gender to test if demographics can explain the variance in income in a population. That is because demographic characteristics are plausible antecedents (causes) for income. But income cannot plausibly influence a person’s gender unless you are studying particularly expensive surgeries! Here is a code to play with: https://lnkd.in/e9shWQw7 #regression #datascience #data_analytics #data #machinelearning #causalinference #causation #modeling #correlation #research #RStudio _
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Some data scientists like to use deep learning to tackle every problem! While Deep Neural Networks are powerful, they also have limitations. For instance, interpreting a trained model can be challenging, whereas linear regression models provide valuable theoretical insights. Often, a well-constructed linear regression model, incorporating interaction terms, transformations, polynomial terms, dummy variables, and lagged predictors, is sufficiently robust for many problems. For example, when predicting Sales for a company, you can include a variety of terms (covariates): AdSpend (advertising costs), Price (treatment), Seasonality (time of year, encoded as dummy variables), LaggedSales (Sales in the last year), AdSpend × ProductQuality, Price/CompetitorPrice, Price², Log(LaggedSales), etc. However, this can lead to hundreds of terms, which can result in overfitting and multicollinearity. To avoid that, we can apply regularization techniques and select the most relevant terms. Consider the multiple linear regression model: y = X. 𝞫 + 𝟄 X: an n-by-m design matrix containing the training data for ALL the potential covariates including all the predictors, their transformations, interactions, etc. It also includes a column of ones for the intercept. y: an n-by-1 vector of observed outcomes in the training data 𝟄: an n-by-1 vector of errors 𝞫: an m-by-1 vector of coefficients OLS can give us the optimal coefficients 𝞫*, but it is probably overfit. To find the optimal subset of terms in the model, let's define some variables: z: an m-by-1 binary vector indicating which terms are included in the model. So, m(z) = sum(z) is the number of terms in the final regression model. Since we always need an intercept, z[1] = 1. X𝗓 = X[ , z] : an n-by-m(z) design matrix with only the columns where z is 1. 𝞫𝗓 : an m(z)-by-1 vector of coefficients for the chosen terms based on z. The new regression model becomes (1). If we multiply both sides by (2) and assume that the 𝟄 term is negligible, we obtain (3), which is the OLS result, minimizing the residual sum of squares (4). Moreover: T : the test dataset (complete matrix) T𝗓 : the subset of the test data containing only the selected columns based on the vector z yₜ : the vector of observed outcomes in the test data. And the estimated outcomes are in (5) e : the vector of Out-of-Sample (OOS) residuals (for z) To find the optimal subset of terms (z*), we minimize the OOS Mean Squared Error (6). But since the size of the test set (n') is constant, this BIP problem summarizes everything: (7) This R code solves this problem using different methods: https://lnkd.in/eWJRNjmt In this example, stepwise regression (AIC) resulted in an OOSMSE value of 1.005 after 3 minutes. Lasso, a regularization method that penalizes the OLS objective for complexity, had an OOSMSE value of 1.16 almost instantly. The Genetic Algorithm achieved the lowest OOSMSE value of 0.99, but took about 12 minutes to compute... _
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