Our teacher already knows there is a positive relationship between how much time was spent on an essay and the grade the essay gets, but we’re going to need some data to demonstrate this properly.

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between ...

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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single ...

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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 ...

Residual plots can be used to validate assumptions about the regression model. Figure 1: Residual plots are helpful in assessments of nonlinear trends and heteroscedasticity. A formal test of lack of ...

Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...