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Appalachian HistoryLetcher County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian History On winter mornings in the early 1920s, coal dust hung over Jenkins, Kentucky, while miners and store clerks climbed the steps of the big recreational building to buy their paper. Upstairs, on the second floor of that four story complex, a tiny shop ran the town’s one newspaper, the Jenkins Recorder.

Appalachian HistoryLetcher County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian History On a February evening in 1948, nearly fifteen hundred people streamed into a freshly remodeled storefront on Main Street in Jenkins. The Champion Dairy Bar offered bright red-and-cream décor, ice cream, and a free carnation to every woman who walked through the door.

Appalachian ChurchesLetcher County KY
Published in Appalachianhistorian.org
Author Alex Hall

Appalachian Churches Tucked against the hillside at the foot of No. 4 Hill in Jenkins, Kentucky, St. George Catholic Church looks like a simple white frame church.

AllgemeinVeranstaltungshinweiseGerman
Published in Open Research Office Berlin

Anmerkung zu dieser Rubrik: Das Open Research Office Berlin erstellt monatlich eine Übersicht über Termine und Veranstaltungen zu Open Access und Open Research in Berlin bzw. an Berliner Einrichtungen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf unseren Partnereinrichtungen und auf Veranstaltungen, die sich an die Öffentlichkeit richten bzw.

Elektronisches PublizierenEuropean Diamond Capacity HubOpen AccessVeranstaltungGerman
Published in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs
Author

In der Welt der wissenschaftlichen Publikationen liegen viele Diamanten noch verborgen: Frei zugängliche Schätze, die weder Autor*innen noch Lesenden Gebühren verursachen und der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft gehören. Doch wie findet man diese Diamanten? Wer darf sie definieren? Und wie stellt man sicher, dass sie sichtbar bleiben?

LassoPenalized RegressionModel SelectionInterpretability
Published in Data Diction
Author Logan Harris

NoteReviewers Ryan Peterson (2025-11-24). Patrick Breheny (2025-12-12). What connotation do you attach to the word “bias”? A negative one? In this post we will see why not all bias is bad… at least when it comes to building predictive models. In fact, for many years, statisticians have recognized the benefits of biased estimators in reducing prediction error. Perhaps you knew this, but if not, don’t worry.