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I was trying to understand the difference between statistical regression VS machine learning regression. My background is from Economics and learned regression from statistical point of view for the ...
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Having recently graduated from my PhD program in statistics, I had for the last couple of months began searching for work in the field of statistics. Almost every company I considered had a job ...
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### Confusion on Mean Squared Error for Regression

In common statistical textbooks' linear regression topic, Mean Squared Error is often defined as $$MSE = \dfrac{(y-\hat{y})^T(y-\hat{y})}{n-p} = \dfrac{RSS}{n-p}$$ where the $y$ and $\hat{y}$ is a ...
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### How important is p-value in Machine Learning?

Scikit-Learn doesn't exhibit the p-values for your models. I'm used to look at the p-values - besides a few other factors - when choosing the variables to consider on my final model. However, p-values ...
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Back in April, I attended a talk at the UMD Math Department Statistics group seminar series called "To Explain or To Predict?". The talk was given by Prof. Galit Shmueli who teaches at UMD's Smith ...
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I'm in the process of writing about the differences between machine learning and classical statistics. I've been looking for some authoritative sources that would give a good, clear, plain-English ...
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I have seen posts about the difference between ML and Statistics. And I have also seen posts explaining that Statistical Learning is a statistical approach to ML. But then, this is confusing because ...
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First, I want to know how to analyze a dataset to discover its pattern. And second, how can I select the best kernel function for classifying a dataset?
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