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Published inFeb 2016
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Ashish Kumar
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Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
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In this chapter, we skimmed through the basic concepts of statistics. Here is a brief summary of the concepts we learned:

  • Hypothesis testing is used to test the statistical significance of a hypothesis. The one which already exists or is assumed to be true is a null hypothesis, the one which someone is not sure about or is being proposed as an alternate premise is an alternate hypothesis.

  • One needs to calculate a statistic and the associated p-value to conduct the test.

  • Hypothesis testing (p-values) is used to test the significance of the estimates of the coefficients calculated by the model.

  • The chi-square test is used to test the causal relationship between a predictor and an input variable. It can also be used to check whether the data is fair or fake.

  • The correlation coefficient can range from -1 to 1. The closer it is to the extremes, the stronger is the relationship between the two variables.

Linear regression is part of the family of algorithms called supervised algorithms as the...

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Published in: Feb 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781783983261

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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks off to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors data science aspirants and fledgling start-ups.
Read more about Ashish Kumar