statistics

Basics of Statistics – Binomial Distribution

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteToday, I would like to extend my previous topic on discrete probability distribution with the concept of Binomial Distribution. A binomial distribution is a specific probability distribution. It is used to model the probability of obtaining one of two outcomes, a certain number of times k out of fixed number of … Read more

Basics of Statistics – Discrete Variable Distribution

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteIn today’s topic I want to explain how we plot the distribution of a random discrete variable. Key terms: expected mean, probability, variance and standard deviation. Let’s explain it by an example. For rolling a Die, let us assume a random variable X (x=1,2,3,4,5,6). The probability is P(x) =1/6. … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 14 – Bias/Variance

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteLet us try to explain today’s topic without delving into statistics. Consider that we are analysing height of men for a population of m number of dataset. Now, if we are Indian, we shall attempt to collect data from Indian men because it is the easiest way to collect. … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 10 – K-Means Clustering

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteHello! I hope you are well and exploring lots of topics in Machine Learning (ML). To continue with my series of ML posts, today, I feel that I need to share a common unsupervised algorithm for a classification problem in ML. My favorite is K means clustering. K-Means: Let’s … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 9 – Logistic Regression

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteHi Friends, Let’s get back to technical things again. In my last topic, I have explained the concept of linear regression. Today, I am going to explain what is logistic regression. Let’s start with an example: suppose, you want to predict a diagnostic test for cancer. Now, you have … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 8 – You cannot skip any topic

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteHi Friends, Have you started the topics that I mentioned in my last post? Hurry up guys .. lots of thing need to be covered! So today, I shall share with you the story of my journey towards Machine learning: One fine morning I decided to start ML. I … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 7 – What is Regression?

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteBefore starting today’s topic, I want to mention a very important point. Please make sure you have covered the concept of the points which I have mentioned in my last post on EDA process. If you are good with that, then let’s proceed. So, what is regression? It means … Read more

Machine Learning is Fun – Part 5 – Probability Distribution Concept

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Viewer RatingYou must sign in to voteHi Friends! I hope you liked my previous posts. Today, I am going to talk on an important topic; that is Probability Distribution. Well, it’s like you are trying to assume or predict something in a scientific way. Now the question is Probability on what? Variables obviously! First concentrate … Read more