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### Is ridge regression useless in high dimensions ($n \ll p$)? How can OLS fail to overfit?

Consider a good old regression problem with $p$ predictors and sample size $n$. The usual wisdom is that OLS estimator will overfit and will generally be outperformed by the ridge regression estimator:...
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### What are the main theorems in Machine (Deep) Learning?

Al Rahimi has recently given a very provocative talk in NIPS 2017 comparing current Machine Learning to Alchemy. One of his claims is that we need to get back to theoretical developments, to have ...
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### Difference between random effect and fixed effect with regularization/prior

Let's say I have a random effect intercept. For example: lme4::lmer(yield ~ 1 + (1|Batch)) How is that different than just ordinary regression using ...
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### Ridge regression / regularization approach to hierarchical model

Suppose we observe panel data $$y_{it} = \alpha_i + \beta_i\,t + \epsilon_{it}$$ where $i$ indexes organizations, $t$ is time, and $\epsilon_{it}$ is i.i.d noise. The terms $\alpha_i$ and $\beta_i$ ...