The Iran conflict: Out-of-sample evidence for global energy diversification

The Iran conflict highlights how geopolitical shocks drive divergence across crude oil and natural gas benchmarks. Widening ...
San Francisco Fed

The Anatomy of Out-of-Sample Forecasting Accuracy

We introduce the performance-based Shapley value (PBSV) to measure the contributions of individual predictors to the out-of-sample loss for time-series forecasting models. Our new metric allows a ...
GEN

NGS Sample Preparation Taking the Pain Out of Painstaking

Although next-generation sequencing (NGS) keeps giving—exploring the human genome and revolutionizing our knowledge of health and disease—it needs to take a little, too. At the very least, NGS ...
Stars and Stripes

Sample out of-this-world-sake near a Marine Corps air station in Japan

Sake drinkers hoping to watch seasoned craftsmen show off ancient skills with antique wooden equipment will be out of luck on a tour of the Dassai brewery in Yamaguchi prefecture. The gleaming ...