statistics you can probably trust

This chapter covers linear regression. The case study is predicting page views for web sites given unique visitors, whether the… Read more

This chapter explains how to create a ranking algorithm to prioritize email messages in your inbox. The authors mention Google… Read more

Back in 1990, the following question was posed to PARADE magazine columnist, Marilyn Vos Savant (once holder of the Guinness World Record for highest… Read more

In this chapter you build a naïve Bayes classifier to classify an email as spam or not spam (or “ham”… Read more

Chapter 2 of Machine Learning for Hackers is called Data Exploration. It explains means, medians, quartiles, variance, histograms, scatterplots, things… Read more

I’ve started working through the book, Machine Learning for Hackers, and decided I would document what I learned or found… Read more

In graduate school I took an experimental design class. As expected, we were assigned a group project that required us… Read more

I’m a huge fan of online classes. I like the self-paced nature, the flexibility, and the autonomy. With the right instructor,… Read more

The first time I took a statistics class I was mystified with z-scores. I understood how to find a z-score… Read more

I want to document in one place some of the ways I carry out simple linear regression in R. To… Read more