Reporting items
Figures
- Figures are legible, relevant but need to be integrated into the text
Experimental design
- The research was conducted appropriately to answer the relevant questions
Validity of the findings
- Conclusions are supported by the results
- The results contribute to the research field
General comments
- Revise the quality of writing
- All the mathematical symbols/variables need to be defined (e.g. w and c in equation (2.1) line 39).
Abstract
- The abstract is concise and does convey the main research findings
Introduction
- It covers the published literature sufficiently
- It provides enough context in which to place the current research
- It does not finish with a paragraph summarizing the relevance of the current research
Materials and methods
- The methods are more or less clear and easy to follow
- The methods to some degree can be replicated if needed
- The data is openly available
- The statistical tests applied performed appropriately
Results
- The results presented in a coherent fashion
- The results reported in a way that is supported by the data
Discussion
- The new results placed into context of the relevant literature
- A balanced argument provided
- Tull implications of the new results discussed in sufficient detail
Conclusions
- The conclusions supported by the results
- The conclusions are concise and written in an impactful way
Questions to authors:
- Why the Friedman test?
- Comparison of computing time between the 4 algorithms (CPLS-RF, PCA-RF, RF and RRF)
- Easiness to implement (R package)
Congratulations to the authors on a great piece of work, and I look forward to seeing their research re-written with all of the revisions.
Sincerely,
[Ralph Lauren]
References
- Any additional papers you have cited within your report