“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 ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Standard linear regression predicts a single numeric value ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Linear regression is a type ...

Linear regression may be the most basic and accessible machine learning (ML) algorithm, but it’s also one of the fastest and most powerful. As a result, professionals in business, science, and ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the linear support vector regression (linear SVR) technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric ...

Not a big fan of Microsoft Excel. Oh sure, it does the job, and it does it quite well (usually). I really just hate starting up that program. Let me say that historically, I think Excel has had a HUGE ...

During the course of operation, businesses accumulate all kinds of data such as numbers related to sales performance and profit, and information about clients. Companies often seek out employees with ...

It can be highly beneficial for companies to develop a forecast of the future values of some important metrics, such as demand for its product or variables that describe the economic climate. There ...