Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Although [Vitor Fróis] is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications in many things that we do with electronics and ...

Decision trees are a simple but powerful prediction method. Figure 1: A classification decision tree is built by partitioning the predictor variable to reduce class mixing at each split. Figure 2: ...

In epidemiological studies using linear regression, it is often necessary for reasons of economy or unavailability of data to use as the independent variable not the variable ideally demanded by the ...

We analyze boosting algorithms [Ann. Statist. 29 (2001) 1189–1232; Ann. Statist. 28 (2000) 337–407; Ann. Statist. 32 (2004) 407–499] in linear regression from a new perspective: that of modern ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program, examples and graphics to explain multi-class logistic regression, an extension technique that allows you to predict a class that can ...