Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the AdaBoost.R2 algorithm for regression problems (where the goal is to predict a single numeric value). The ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the naive Bayes regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other ...

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spreadsheet, trying to make sense of all those numbers? Many face the challenge of transforming raw data into actionable insights, especially when it comes to ...

This is the third in a series of lecture notes which, if tied together into a textbook, might be entitled “Practical Regression.” The purpose of the notes is to supplement the theoretical content of ...

Regression analysis refers to a method of mathematically sorting out which variables may have an impact. The importance of regression analysis for a small business is that it helps determine which ...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether adjustments for the differential prediction observed among sex, racial/ethnic, or age subgroups in one freshman class at a college could be used to ...