Point process models for presence‐only analysis

IW Renner, J Elith, A Baddeley… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Presence‐only data are widely used for species distribution modelling, and point process
regression models are a flexible tool that has considerable potential for this problem, when …

Caveats for correlative species distribution modeling

CS Jarnevich, TJ Stohlgren, S Kumar, JT Morisette… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Correlative species distribution models are becoming commonplace in the scientific
literature and public outreach products, displaying locations, abundance, or suitable …

The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) should replace the ROC AUC as the standard metric for assessing binary classification

D Chicco, G Jurman - BioData Mining, 2023 - Springer
Binary classification is a common task for which machine learning and computational
statistics are used, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC …

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

JM Kass, B Guénard, KL Dudley, CN Jenkins… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

Urban flood risk map** using the GARP and QUEST models: A comparative study of machine learning techniques

H Darabi, B Choubin, O Rahmati, AT Haghighi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Flood risk map** and modeling is important to prevent urban flood damage. In this study,
a flood risk map was produced with limited hydrological and hydraulic data using two state …

kuenm: an R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent

ME Cobos, AT Peterson, N Barve, L Osorio-Olvera - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in
diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The …

Paintings predict the distribution of species, or the challenge of selecting environmental predictors and evaluation statistics

Y Fourcade, AG Besnard… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution modelling, a family of statistical methods that predicts species
distributions from a set of occurrences and environmental predictors, is now routinely …

Minimum required number of specimen records to develop accurate species distribution models

ASJ van Proosdij, MSM Sosef, JJ Wieringa… - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the occurrence of species.
Because SDMs generally use presence‐only data, validation of the predicted distribution …

The area under the precision‐recall curve as a performance metric for rare binary events

HR Sofaer, JA Hoeting… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models are used to study biogeographic patterns and guide decision‐
making. The variable quality of these models makes it critical to assess whether a model's …

Using machine learning methods to predict in-hospital mortality of sepsis patients in the ICU

G Kong, K Lin, Y Hu - BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2020 - Springer
Background Early and accurate identification of sepsis patients with high risk of in-hospital
death can help physicians in intensive care units (ICUs) make optimal clinical decisions …