In this talk, we consider different methods of parameter inference for ABC. Derivations of the asymptotic bias and variance of the standard ABC estimators indicates ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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It only makes sense. I did linear regression in google docs and I did it for python. But what if you neither of those? Can you do it by hand? Why yes. Suppose I take the same data from the pylab ...

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 ...