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View ArticleVideo Lectures of Harvard CS109 Data Science Course
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Hello,I want to implement a multi-class classifier using logistic regression, but I don't know the steps for doing that.I describe the problem below:I have five data sets as training set in the form of...
View ArticleMachine Learning job for Msc.
Hi everyone ! I just got my Master's degree in applied mathematics (optimization and operations research ), and I've been interested in Machine Learning, o more broadly, Data Science for quite some...
View ArticleIdeas for a good place (department/lab) for a PostDoc position?
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View ArticleR clustering and decision tree examples
Hi All - I'm fairly new to R and am playing around with some of the UCI datasets. I'm looking for a couple of R data mining examples. Specifically, I'm looking for a kmeans example in R where k=N (any...
View ArticleIs there a type of linear regression in which I can put brackets on the...
Let's say I know a coefficient should be between 1 and 4, so I want to limit its range within those numbers. It's similar to using offsets, only that the coefficients are ranges rather than specific...
View ArticleHow does an algorithm qualify as sequential?
I'm trying to understand why some algorithms fit the "statistical query model" and some don't. Aka. why some can be parallelized and scaled using tools like Hadoop while others are limited because they...
View ArticleMulticlass Naive Bayes with probabilities for y
Hi, I've got to train a classifier where a sample can belong to one of many classes. And the training set output is given as the probability for belonging that sample to each class. Eg: sample#1 :...
View ArticleMachine Learning Tutorial: The Multinomial Logistic Regression (Softmax...
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View Articleimportant features/variables in kmeans cluster
I am trying to figure out the best way to determine the most important/dominate variables in a kmeans cluster. I know it's probably somewhat simple but my Googleing isn't taking me anywhere...
View ArticleBook-in-progress: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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