Who are the most appropriate candidates to receive a call-for-paper or call-for-participation? What session topics should we propose for a conference of next year? To answer these questions, we need to precisely predict research topics of authors. In this paper, we build a MLR (Multiple Logistic Regression) model to predict the topic-following behavior of an author. By empirical studies, we fin...

This paper investigates the effect of four driving forces, including elevation, slope, distance to drainage and distance to major roads, on urban expansion in five Saudi Arabian cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah, Al-Taif and Eastern Area. The prediction of urban probabilities in the selected cities based on the four driving forces is generated using a logistic regression model for two time periods...

the logistic regression (lr) method, as an empirical estimation method, was used to model urban growth in gorgan city between the years 1987-2001. three groups of variables including social-economic, land use and biophysical variables were used. similarity among variables is probable. to remove the correlated variables, covariance was calculated and distance to administrative, sporting centers ...

background: diagnostic models are frequently used to assess the role of risk factors on disease complications, and therefore to avoid them. missing data is an issue that challenges the model making. the aim of this study was to develop a diagnostic model to predict death in hiv/ aids patients when missing data exist. methods: hiv patients (n=1460) referred to voluntary consoling and testing cen...

conclusions this study showed that gender, education level, occupation, socioeconomic status, medical care, health condition, lifestyle, family conflict, drug abuse history, and religious attitudes are the major social factors of risky driving on the intercity roads of tehran province. background traffic accidents are the major cause of injuries that endanger the lives of many people annually. ...

in this study, irib regarding to the position and its functions of as a medium of communication has been analyzed and tried to identify the national and global key factors, in the next ten years to 1404, influencing it in political, social, economic and technological environment and then found out the organizational capabilities. therefore the future situation of a very large and very complex o...