# Questions tagged [machine-learning]

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### Using Random Forest to analyse repeated measures data

I have crop disease data categorized into 2 classes, i.e., healthy and diseased status of the crop. The aim of the analysis is to see how early the disease status can be detected in crop using ...
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### Are the following is a good wrap of a comparison between all linear regression types (single, multiple and polynomial)?

I am new to machine learning and it's hard to find an instructor to help you with theory based questions. If this question does not fit to this site feel free to remove it. I am comparing the 3 types ...
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### How can one compare activation functions?

Since there are so many activation functions, out there, what are some methods using which one can compare each of them to evaluate their effectiveness?
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### Recommended textbooks for student majoring in applied statistics

I am currently a second year science student double majoring in biochemistry and applied statistics. The stats course im doing this semester (Statistical Theory) is focused on joint probability ...
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### testing results better than validation in nested cross-validation

I am implementing a code for applying nested cross validation and as you know the inner loop is for hyper parameter tuning and the outer loop is for testing the general performance: In each fold of ...
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### Weighted averaging of multi-task (multi-output) regression errors

I am trying to elaborate a multi-task (multi-output) regression metric based on single-task metrics. From my perspective, it should be a weighted average of single-task errors estimated with the same ...
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### I was doing this course ' Bayesian Methods for machine learning' on coursera and I got stuck on few conditional statements expansion and manipulation

I have doubt in three conditional expansions : How is P(w,y|x) = P(y|w,x).P(w) ? How is P(w|y,x) = P(y,w|x)/P(y|x) ? How is <...
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### To what extend do the pitfalls of linear / logistic regression apply to other machine learning methods?

During my university days, they took great care to go through everything we could do wrong when using simple regression models. Reverse causality, omitted variable bias, heteroskedasticity, normality ...
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### mathematical simulation of svm workings

i cant seem to work my head around the mathematical part of svm i understand the concept and the derivations but the the part that comes after lagrangian formulation is where im stuck..(googling didn'...
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### How to Predict the sales of all the items, offered in all the countries

I am working on a task to predict the sales of all the items offered in all the countries. The sales are aggregated on a daily and country level. Each Item has a history of past sales and prices for a ...
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### Regression with a growing year over year dataset

I created a hierarchical GAM to model final event sales as a function of sales to date, days until event, teams that are playing, and event month with a grouping at the home team level. This yielded ...
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### H2o interpretability how to parallelize

I have trained a model using autoML everything is ok. But this model is for healthcare therefore is very important the interpretability so I have used "iml" Package in combination with the ML model ...
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### Model recalibration in R for machine learning models [on hold]

I would like to recalibrate my model using R. I tried Frank Harrell's rms package but this one does not allow statistical or machine learning approaches. How can I recalibrate my model using ...
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### How did these researchers determine the confidence interval of the AUROC using resampling but without retraining the model?

In this Nature article backed by Google, the investigators develop then externally validate a deep learning model for predicting lung cancer using CT scans. In their internal validation results, we ...
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### Deep Learning for small 1-dim Datasets

I am trying to find a neural network architecture for a dataset (150 instances) with 10 features (numerical). The features are not associated to each other, so 1d-convolutions are not an option. ...
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### Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation (IHS) for dependent variable - How to back transform predictions?

I am doing IHS transformation for the dependent variable (count data, mostly 0 and small counts) while training a non-parametric tree-based machine learning model. I've seen posts saying it will ...
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### Using neural network with mnist cvs data format [on hold]

I've been reading this book about neural networks, called "make your own neural network" and there he tests his neural network with data from MNIST, however the sample he is using is not the same as ...
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### Can anyone suggest the source to study basics needed for The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie Robert Tibshirani Jerome Friedman [duplicate]

anyone suggest the relevant study material to get the basics cleared for understanding the book The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie Robert Tibshirani Jerome Friedman
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### Retraining only fully connected layer

What kind of features fully connected layer have? For example using transfer learning if we just transfer the fc layer of target model to fc layer of source model and rest of model is assigned random ...
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### neural networks and optimization problems in general

Neural networks are efficient at solving optimization problems. The topic of optimization problems is divided into linear and nonlinear problems and in linear and nonlinear conditions. I just wonder ...
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### Model for simultaneous person detection and pose estimation

Does someone know a model that performs person detection (eg using a bounding box like YOLO or Mask-RCNN) and simultaneously pose estimation (like CPM or Personlab) in one forward pass. The models I ...
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### How to decode a deep neural network as an analytical expression/formula? [on hold]

The question pretty much says it all. A shallow neural network is simple to do by hand but how to do it for a deep neural network (or is it possible without needing a mile long paper)? This becomes ...
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### What is the course structure of mathematics included in AI AND MACHINE LEARNING? [on hold]

I have just finished my basics in python....and automation....and I want to move Forward to AI amd machine learning. I'm a beginner. Please I need some help here!
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### Best approach to an event detection classifier model

Probably my title is not as precise as I'd like it to, but bear with me, the problem is quite straightforward: I have daily time-series sales and stock data, from January to May, both in 2018 and 2019....
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### Understanding the process of transfer learning for NLP

Full Disclosure: I am a machine learning newbie. I have been learning about natural language processing for the past few weeks. To my understanding, the process of creating a supervised text model ...
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### Higher RMSE but lower MAE and RMLSE. Which model is better? [duplicate]

I am evaluating two machine learning models. The output is count data which has a range of 0 to 30, which most of the output values being small values. Large output values are rare. One model has ...
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### How to find similar users in a social network

I have a set of users from a social network. These users are represented by large sparse vectors. Let's say that a small subset of those users bought a ticket for a particular movie. How could I find ...
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### Interpreting Local Outlier Factor (LOF) results

Using this example on the scikit-learn site, I am attempting to do some anomaly detection using LOF. What I end up with is this: ...
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### How to specify and fit a hybrid machine learning - linear model

I want to understand how some dependent variable y, depends on a known relationship with independent variable x, but also how <...
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from http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~somil/Papers/lqrlecture.pdf Why must the matrices be positive semidefinite? What is the input authority cost? What is the purpose of multiplying the transpose ...
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### Log Likelihood Glmnet

I am not exactly sure if I understood the glmnet algorithm correctly (https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/glmnet/glmnet_alpha.html). It says it uses a maximum likelihood approach to find a solution. ...
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### I need to inject a scalar value on my pix2pix model but there is something wrong [on hold]

I am a newcomer in this forum so I don't know if anyone's ever asked that question before. I need help in my work: I want to implement a model that conditions a Generative Adversarial Network with an ...
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### How to optimise 3-layered NN for regression predictions? [duplicate]

I'm trying to train a NN model on a regression dataset and trying to predict capacity. The size of dataset is 20773. My model is as: ...
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### Is it possible to refit after cross-validation and continue to train the model for better accuracy?

A weird question below. Suppose you did a 10 fold cross-validation to show that a model is an unbiased estimator. And the results of the cross-validation also shows that training the model longer ...