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Least Square Estimates

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Ordinary Least Square

Weighted Least Sqaure

  1. Heterogeneous variance

close results to transformation

Matrix Decomposition

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

QR Decomposition

The QR decomposition uses the Gram-Schmidt process to express a set of vectors (columns of design matrix from statistical view) in a set of orthogonal unit vecotors (which means …

Cross Validation in Machine Learning

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Training and Testing Data Set

  • good when you have large amount of data

  • usually use 1/5 to 1/3 of the data as testing data set.

K-fold CV

  • suitable when …

Estimate FDR

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The problem is actually to estimate the number of null hypotheses.

  • Benjamini

  • Nettleton

Regression Classification ANOVA

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Regression refers to problems where the response (output) variable is continous while classfication refers to problems where the response (output) variable is discrete.

Generally speaking fitting gression to classification problems is …