Linear regression

Reviewing linear regression and framing it as a prototypical example and source of intuition for other machine learning methods.

Joshua Loftus
01-25-2021

Machine learning before the information age

Slides and notebooks

Notebook for gapminder example

Slides for simple regression video (PDF)

Slides for risk and CEFs video (PDF)

Notebook for seminar

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Loftus (2021, Jan. 25). Neurath's Speedboat: Linear regression. Retrieved from http://joshualoftus.com/ml4ds/02-linear-regression/

BibTeX citation

@misc{loftus2021linear,
  author = {Loftus, Joshua},
  title = {Neurath's Speedboat: Linear regression},
  url = {http://joshualoftus.com/ml4ds/02-linear-regression/},
  year = {2021}
}