During the course of operation, businesses accumulate all kinds of data such as numbers related to sales performance and profit, and information about clients. Companies often seek out employees with ...

Linear regression is a powerful and long-established statistical tool that is commonly used across applied sciences, economics and many other fields. Linear regression considers the relationship ...

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 ...

Implementing LRR from scratch is harder than using a library like scikit-learn, but it helps you customize your code, makes it easier to integrate with other systems, and gives you a complete ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...

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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 ...