“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...

Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...

The goal of a machine learning regression problem is to predict a single numeric value. For example, you might want to predict an employee's bank account balance based on age, height, annual income, ...

Last month we explored how to model a simple relationship between two variables, such as the dependence of weight on height 1. In the more realistic scenario of dependence on several variables, we can ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Data Science and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Business. This course is freely available as an outside option to students on other programmes where ...

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 ...