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Published inMar 2017
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781786462411
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Dr. Param Jeet
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Dr. Param Jeet

Dr. Param Jeet is a Ph.D. in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute in Madras (IITM), India. Dr. Param Jeet has a couple of mathematical research papers published in various international journals. Dr. Param Jeet has been into the analytics industry for the last few years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as a data scientist.
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PRASHANT VATS
PRASHANT VATS
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PRASHANT VATS

Prashant Vats is a masters in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute, IIT Mumbai. Prashant has been into analytics industry for more than 10 years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as data scientist across several domain.
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  1. What is machine learning and how it being used in the capital market? Explain in brief.

  2. What is logistic regression and in which form does it generate its output?

  3. Write a small piece of code to use a neural network for any stock time series.

  4. How does a confusion matrix explain the accuracy of a model?

  5. How do you standardize data and why is it important in the model building process?

  6. How is support vector machine different from logistic regression?

  7. Explain supervised and unsupervised learning and how to use these techniques in algorithmic trading.

  8. Write a small piece of code for the k means algorithm using any one stock closing price.

  9. Apart from confusionMatrix(), what is the other function to calculate classification and misclassification matrices?

  10. What is the difference between decision tree and random forest and how are features selected from random forest?

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Published in: Mar 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786462411

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Dr. Param Jeet

Dr. Param Jeet is a Ph.D. in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute in Madras (IITM), India. Dr. Param Jeet has a couple of mathematical research papers published in various international journals. Dr. Param Jeet has been into the analytics industry for the last few years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as a data scientist.
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PRASHANT VATS

Prashant Vats is a masters in mathematics from one of India's leading technological institute, IIT Mumbai. Prashant has been into analytics industry for more than 10 years and has worked with various leading multinational companies as well as consulted few of companies as data scientist across several domain.
Read more about PRASHANT VATS