scholarly journals GIS − Based Logistic Regression Models for Landslide Hazard Mapping: A Case Study From Ensaro District, North Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdurohman Adem ◽  
Suryabhagavan Venkata Karuturi ◽  
Tarun Kumar Raghuvanshi

Abstract The present study was undertaken to identify landslides hazard prone areas in North Ethiopia. The landslide hazard in the present study area was evaluated by using the logistic regression model. Seven landslide causative factors were used for the landslide hazard evaluation, these are; slope gradient, slope aspect, elevation, proximity to streams, land-use/ land-cover, lithology and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Besides, for the present study landslides inventory data for the period of 2000 to 2018 was collected from the field survey and the Google earth image interpretation. The coefficient for the considered causative factors and classes were used for the identification of landslides hazard index using raster tool in ARCGIS environment. The prediction of the logistic regression model reveals that one third of the study area (32%) is under high hazard zone and the steep slopes and the elevated areas are most susceptible areas. The predicted landslides hazard zonation map is highly correlated with the training data set where 74% of it lies in the very high and high landslide hazard zones. Results of the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve for the training sample, was found to be 0.76 while the area under the ROC curve of the validation sample was 0.71. Thus, the validation results has confirmed the rationality of adopted methodology, considered causative factors and their evaluation in producing LHZ map for the area. Further, the study has forwarded recommendations that can be followed to prevent and mitigate the adverse impact of landslides in the study area.

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 287-295
Author(s):  
Zhiming Zhou ◽  
Haihui Huang ◽  
Yong Liang

BACKGROUND: In genome research, it is particularly important to identify molecular biomarkers or signaling pathways related to phenotypes. Logistic regression model is a powerful discrimination method that can offer a clear statistical explanation and obtain the classification probability of classification label information. However, it is unable to fulfill biomarker selection. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to give the model efficient gene selection capability. METHODS: In this paper, we propose a new penalized logsum network-based regularization logistic regression model for gene selection and cancer classification. RESULTS: Experimental results on simulated data sets show that our method is effective in the analysis of high-dimensional data. For a large data set, the proposed method has achieved 89.66% (training) and 90.02% (testing) AUC performances, which are, on average, 5.17% (training) and 4.49% (testing) better than mainstream methods. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed method can be considered a promising tool for gene selection and cancer classification of high-dimensional biological data.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Nissen ◽  
Stefan Rupp ◽  
Björn Guse ◽  
Uwe Ulbrich ◽  
Sergiy Vorogushyn ◽  
...  

<p>In this study we present the results of a logistic regression model aimed at describing changes in probabilities for rockfall events in Germany in response to changes in meteorological and hydrological conditions.</p><p>The rockfall events for this study are taken from the landslide database for Germany (Damm and Klose, 2015). The meteorological variables we tested as predictors for the logistic regression model are daily precipitation from the REGNIE data set (Rauthe et al. 2013), hourly precipitation from the RADKLIM radar climatology (Winterrath et al., 2018) and temperature from the E-OBS data set (Cornes et al., 2018). As there is no observational soil moisture data set covering the entire country, we used soil moisture modelled with the state-of-the-art hydrological model mHM (Samaniego et al. 2010), which was calibrated using gauge measurements.</p><p>In order to select the best statistical model we tested a large number of physically plausible combinations of meteorological and hydrological predictors. Each model was checked using cross-validation. The decision on the final model was based on the value of the logarithmic skill score and on expert judgement.</p><p>The final statistical model includes the local percentile of daily precipitation, total relative soil moisture and freeze-thawing cycles in the previous weeks as predictors. It was found that daily precipitation is the most important parameter in the model. An increase of daily precipitation from its median to its 80th percentile approximately doubles the probability for a rockfall event. Higher soil moisture and the occurrence of freeze-thaw cycles also increase the probability for rockfall events. </p><p><br>Cornes, R. C. et al., 2018: An ensemble version of the E‐OBS temperature and precipitation data sets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 9391– 9409.</p><p>Damm, B., Klose, M., 2015. The landslide database for Germany: Closing the gap at national level. Geomorphology 249, 82–93</p><p>Rauthe, M. et al., 2013: A Central European precipitation climatology – Part I: Generation and validation of a high-reso-lution gridded daily data set (HYRAS), Vol. 22(3), p 235–256.</p><p>Samaniego, L. et al., 2010: Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale. Water Resour. Res., 46,W05523</p><p>Winterrath, T. et al., 2018: RADKLIM Version 2017.002: Reprocessed gauge-adjusted radar data, one-hour precipitation sums (RW), DOI: 10.5676/DWD/RADKLIM_RW_V2017.002.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niema Ghanad Poor ◽  
Nicholas C West ◽  
Rama Syamala Sreepada ◽  
Srinivas Murthy ◽  
Matthias Görges

BACKGROUND In the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), quantifying illness severity can be guided by risk models to enable timely identification and appropriate intervention. Logistic regression models, including the pediatric index of mortality 2 (PIM-2) and pediatric risk of mortality III (PRISM-III), produce a mortality risk score using data that are routinely available at PICU admission. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) outperform regression models in some medical fields. OBJECTIVE In light of this potential, we aim to examine ANN performance, compared to that of logistic regression, for mortality risk estimation in the PICU. METHODS The analyzed data set included patients from North American PICUs whose discharge diagnostic codes indicated evidence of infection and included the data used for the PIM-2 and PRISM-III calculations and their corresponding scores. We stratified the data set into training and test sets, with approximately equal mortality rates, in an effort to replicate real-world data. Data preprocessing included imputing missing data through simple substitution and normalizing data into binary variables using PRISM-III thresholds. A 2-layer ANN model was built to predict pediatric mortality, along with a simple logistic regression model for comparison. Both models used the same features required by PIM-2 and PRISM-III. Alternative ANN models using single-layer or unnormalized data were also evaluated. Model performance was compared using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and the area under the precision recall curve (AUPRC) and their empirical 95% CIs. RESULTS Data from 102,945 patients (including 4068 deaths) were included in the analysis. The highest performing ANN (AUROC 0.871, 95% CI 0.862-0.880; AUPRC 0.372, 95% CI 0.345-0.396) that used normalized data performed better than PIM-2 (AUROC 0.805, 95% CI 0.801-0.816; AUPRC 0.234, 95% CI 0.213-0.255) and PRISM-III (AUROC 0.844, 95% CI 0.841-0.855; AUPRC 0.348, 95% CI 0.322-0.367). The performance of this ANN was also significantly better than that of the logistic regression model (AUROC 0.862, 95% CI 0.852-0.872; AUPRC 0.329, 95% CI 0.304-0.351). The performance of the ANN that used unnormalized data (AUROC 0.865, 95% CI 0.856-0.874) was slightly inferior to our highest performing ANN; the single-layer ANN architecture performed poorly and was not investigated further. CONCLUSIONS A simple ANN model performed slightly better than the benchmark PIM-2 and PRISM-III scores and a traditional logistic regression model trained on the same data set. The small performance gains achieved by this two-layer ANN model may not offer clinically significant improvement; however, further research with other or more sophisticated model designs and better imputation of missing data may be warranted. CLINICALTRIAL


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.-Ming Chiu ◽  
Wenhua Lu ◽  
Fangming Tian ◽  
Daniel Hart

Machine learning is about finding patterns and making predictions from raw data. In this study, we aimed to achieve two goals by utilizing the modern logistic regression model as a statistical tool and classifier. First, we analyzed the associations between Major Depressive Episode with Severe Impairment (MDESI) in adolescents with a list of broadly defined sociodemographic characteristics. Using findings from the logistic model, the second and ultimate goal was to identify the potential MDESI cases using a logistic model as a classifier (i.e., a predictive mechanism). Data on adolescents aged 12–17 years who participated in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2011–2017, were pooled and analyzed. The logistic regression model revealed that compared with males and adolescents aged 12-13, females and those in the age groups of 14-15 and 16-17 had higher risk of MDESI. Blacks and Asians had lower risk of MDESI than Whites. Living in single-parent household, having less authoritative parents, having negative school experiences further increased adolescents' risk of having MDESI. The predictive model successfully identified 66% of the MDESI cases (recall rate) and accurately identified 72% of the MDESI and MDESI-free cases (accuracy rate) in the training data set. The rates of both recall and accuracy remained about the same (66 and 72%) using the test data. Results from this study confirmed that the logistic model, when used as a classifier, can identify potential cases of MDESI in adolescents with acceptable recall and reasonable accuracy rates. The algorithmic identification of adolescents at risk for depression may improve prevention and intervention.


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