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Nature Methods: Points of Significance
Generated on 13-May-2024 (7 days ago).
Metrics are provided by Altmetric.
Access values larger than 10,000 are rounded off to nearest 1,000 by Altmetric.
| article |
accesses |
daily |
%nm |
%all |
cit (ws) |
cit (cross) |
altmetric |
| Significance, P values and t-tests |
223,000 |
58 |
91
|
98
|
95 |
94 |
94 |
| Error bars |
208,000 |
54 |
98
|
99
|
163 |
178 |
187 |
| Visualizing samples with box plots |
198,000 |
53 |
86
|
98
|
343 |
367 |
82 |
| Principal component analysis |
193,000 |
77 |
86
|
96
|
463 |
763 |
80 |
| Association, correlation and causation |
172,000 |
55 |
97
|
99
|
157 |
186 |
183 |
| P values and the search for significance |
133,000 |
49 |
94
|
98
|
56 |
68 |
156 |
| Replication |
129,000 |
36 |
60
|
93
|
100 |
92 |
26 |
| Statistics versus machine learning |
123,000 |
55 |
97
|
99
|
202 |
787 |
351 |
| Importance of being uncertain |
117,000 |
30 |
80
|
96
|
52 |
56 |
52 |
| Power and sample size |
107,000 |
28 |
79
|
97
|
113 |
129 |
56 |
| Nonparametric tests |
64,000 |
17 |
56
|
88
|
49 |
54 |
13 |
| Comparing samples—part I |
63,000 |
17 |
68
|
92
|
25 |
33 |
21 |
| Analysis of variance and blocking |
60,000 |
17 |
62
|
92
|
41 |
48 |
19 |
| Nested designs |
59,000 |
17 |
86
|
97
|
40 |
38 |
56 |
| Bayes' theorem |
58,000 |
17 |
73
|
95
|
54 |
56 |
38 |
| Two-factor designs |
57,000 |
16 |
34
|
51
|
20 |
27 |
3 |
| Comparing samples—part II |
53,000 |
14 |
47
|
87
|
48 |
51 |
12 |
| Sources of variation |
52,000 |
15 |
57
|
92
|
15 |
18 |
17 |
| Simple linear regression |
51,000 |
16 |
76
|
93
|
63 |
81 |
29 |
| Split plot design |
51,000 |
15 |
40
|
78
|
42 |
46 |
7 |
| The SEIRS model for infectious disease dynamics |
48,000 |
33 |
98
|
99
|
72 |
102 |
358 |
| Bayesian statistics |
48,000 |
15 |
57
|
90
|
16 |
17 |
17 |
| Designing comparative experiments |
48,000 |
13 |
52
|
83
|
11 |
14 |
9 |
| Interpreting P values |
46,000 |
17 |
75
|
95
|
35 |
51 |
60 |
| Sampling distributions and the bootstrap |
46,000 |
14 |
54
|
91
|
61 |
75 |
18 |
| Multiple linear regression |
44,000 |
14 |
81
|
95
|
62 |
79 |
43 |
| Classification and regression trees |
40,000 |
16 |
46
|
80
|
122 |
185 |
10 |
| Classification evaluation |
38,000 |
13 |
70
|
95
|
171 |
223 |
45 |
| Model selection and overfitting |
36,000 |
13 |
66
|
92
|
309 |
358 |
27 |
| Bayesian networks |
35,000 |
11 |
45
|
77
|
29 |
26 |
7 |
| Clustering |
32,000 |
13 |
50
|
89
|
64 |
87 |
20 |
| Optimal experimental design |
25,000 |
12 |
50
|
89
|
43 |
53 |
21 |
| Analyzing outliers: influential or nuisance? |
25,000 |
8 |
35
|
68
|
51 |
56 |
5 |
| Machine learning: supervised methods |
22,000 |
9 |
56
|
92
|
128 |
181 |
24 |
| Logistic regression |
21,000 |
7 |
68
|
92
|
62 |
70 |
25 |
| Regression diagnostics |
21,000 |
7 |
46
|
72
|
37 |
47 |
6 |
| Ensemble methods: bagging and random forests |
18,000 |
7 |
37
|
79
|
96 |
135 |
9 |
| Modeling infectious epidemics |
17,000 |
11 |
85
|
97
|
45 |
64 |
111 |
| The curse(s) of dimensionality |
17,000 |
8 |
58
|
89
|
145 |
192 |
21 |
| Machine learning: a primer |
16,000 |
7 |
89
|
97
|
63 |
91 |
80 |
| Tabular data |
13,000 |
5 |
28
|
64
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Regularization |
12,000 |
4 |
54
|
87
|
28 |
26 |
14 |
| Two-level factorial experiments |
10,000 |
5 |
12
|
24
|
10 |
10 |
1 |
| Predicting with confidence and tolerance |
7,723 |
4 |
34
|
69
|
3 |
5 |
6 |
| Markov models—Markov chains |
7,249 |
4 |
40
|
90
|
12 |
16 |
23 |
| Markov models — hidden Markov models |
5,804 |
3 |
25
|
79
|
16 |
20 |
9 |
| The standardization fallacy |
4,860 |
4 |
47
|
93
|
24 |
25 |
32 |
| Convolutional neural networks |
4,752 |
17 |
17
|
72
|
0 |
5 |
6 |
| Quantile regression |
4,049 |
2 |
36
|
78
|
14 |
55 |
9 |
| Markov models — training and evaluation of hidden Markov models |
4,016 |
3 |
41
|
85
|
5 |
4 |
12 |
| The class imbalance problem |
3,665 |
4 |
20
|
75
|
17 |
32 |
7 |
| Analyzing outliers: robust methods to the rescue |
3,441 |
2 |
25
|
50
|
16 |
18 |
3 |
| Uncertainty and the management of epidemics |
3,423 |
3 |
21
|
70
|
5 |
9 |
7 |
| Survival analysis—time-to-event data and censoring |
3,322 |
5 |
17
|
68
|
2 |
6 |
4 |
| Neural networks primer |
2,957 |
6 |
19
|
69
|
1 |
2 |
4 |
| Graphical assessment of tests and classifiers |
2,152 |
2 |
28
|
83
|
4 |
4 |
11 |
| Regression modeling of time-to-event data with censoring |
1,857 |
3 |
11
|
71
|
1 |
2 |
5 |
| Testing for rare conditions |
1,492 |
1 |
15
|
60
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Comparing classifier performance with baselines |
1,220 |
23 |
27
|
77
|
0 |
0 |
7 |
| Errors in predictor variables |
1,089 |
8 |
1
|
19
|
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
2,912,071 |
1,012 |
53 |
83 |
3,925 |
5,521 |
%NM percentile rank (avg 53) for the article of tracked articles of a similar age in Nature Methods.
%ALL percentile rank (avg 83) for the article of tracked articles of a similar age in all journals.
Total accesses 2,912,071.
Total citations 5,538 = sum(maxi(webscience,crossref)).
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