# 1567 search results for "regression"

## Trading with Support Vector Machines (SVM)

November 30, 2012
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Finally all the stars have aligned and I can confidently devote some time for back-testing of new trading systems, and Support Vector Machines (SVM) are the new “toy” which is going to keep me busy for a while. SVMs are a well-known tool from the area of supervised Machine Learning, and they are used both

## Another Way to Access R from Python – PypeR

November 29, 2012
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Different from RPy2, PypeR provides another simple way to access R from Python through pipes (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v35/c02/paper). This handy feature enables data analysts to do the data munging with python and the statistical analysis with R by passing objects interactively between two computing systems. Below is a simple demonstration on how to call R within Python

## bigglm on your big data set in open source R, it just works – similar as in SAS

In a recent post by Revolution Analytics (link & link) in which Revolution was benchmarking their closed source generalized linear model approach with SAS, Hadoop and open source R, they seemed to be pointing out that there is no 'easy' R open source solution which exists for building a poisson regression model on large datasets.    This post is about...

## OpenScoring: Open Source Scoring of PMML Models via REST

November 27, 2012
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The other day I stumbled accross an amazing PMML model API called jpmml.  It's written in Java and supports PMML 4.1 (and older).  Neural networks, random forests, regression and trees PMML models can be consumed and used for scoring.I decide...

## Minimizing Bias in Observational Studies

November 26, 2012
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Measuring the effect of a binary treatment on a measured outcome is one of the most common tasks in applied statistics. Examples of these applications abound, like the effect of smoking on health, or the effect of low birth weight on cognitive development. In an ideal world we would like to be able to assign

## The perks (and quirks) of being a referee

November 25, 2012
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The other day I was talking to a friend at work, who was rather annoyed that one of his papers had been rejected by a journal, given the negative comments of the reviewers. This is, of course, part of the game, so you don't really get annoyed just because a paper get rejected. From what I hear, though, I...

## Data types, part 3: Factors!

November 21, 2012
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In this third part of the data types series, I'll go an important class that I skipped over so far: factors.Factors are categorical variables that are super useful in summary statistics, plots, and regressions. They basically act like dummy variables t...

## The Hour of Hell of Every Morning – Commute Analysis, April to October 2012

November 19, 2012
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IntroductionSo a little while ago I quit my job.Well, actually, that sounds really negative. I'm told that when you are discussing large changes in your life, like finding a new career, relationship, or brand of diet soda, it's important to frame things positively.So let me rephrase that - I've left job I previously held to pursue other directions. Why?...

## A Shiny new way of communicating Bayesian statistics

November 19, 2012
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Bayesian data analysis follows a very simple and general recipe: Specify a model and likelihood, i.e. what process do you think is generating your data? Specify a prior distribution, i.e. quantify what you know about a problem before having seen … Continue reading →

$The Heteroskedastic Probit Model$