Our teacher already knows there is a positive relationship between how much time was spent on an essay and the grade the essay gets, but we’re going to need some data to demonstrate this properly.

Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Regression models predict outcomes like housing prices from various inputs. Machine learning enhances regression by analyzing large, complex datasets. Different regression types address varied data ...

Last month we explored how to model a simple relationship between two variables, such as the dependence of weight on height 1. In the more realistic scenario of dependence on several variables, we can ...

This project calculates and visualizes the beta of Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) relative to the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) using linear regression of daily returns. It demonstrates how to quantify systematic ...

THE “simplified” method of calculating a linear regression put forward by Aldridge, Berry and Davies 1 is the well-known method of orthogonal polynomials which was put on a practical working basis by ...

To summarize, we use bag of little bootstraps procedure as a more efficient approach to obtaining confidence intervals when a simple "mapreduce" operation is not efficient for obtaining the sum of ...