Xavier Bourret Sicotte

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Bias and variance in leave-one-out vs K-fold cross validation

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How to intuitively explain what a kernel is?

Jul 8, 2018

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Calculating confidence intervals for a logistic regression

Jul 5, 2018

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Maximum Likelihood Estimators - Multivariate Gaussian

Jun 15, 2018

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Understanding bias-variance tradeoff derivation

Jul 3, 2018

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Maximum Likelihood Estimators - Multivariate Gaussian

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A/B testing ratio of sums

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Support Vector Machine - Calculate w by hand

Jun 28, 2018

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Why is gradient descent so bad at optimizing polynomial regression?

Jun 6, 2018

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Implicit hypothesis testing: mean greater than variance and Delta Method

Apr 27, 2018

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How to intuitively explain what a kernel is?

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How to interpret a QQ plot?

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Understanding bias-variance tradeoff derivation

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What is the difference between a "link function" and a "canonical link function" for GLM

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