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Statistics for Data Science

You're reading from   Statistics for Data Science Leverage the power of statistics for Data Analysis, Classification, Regression, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290678
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Preface 1. Transitioning from Data Developer to Data Scientist 2. Declaring the Objectives FREE CHAPTER 3. A Developer's Approach to Data Cleaning 4. Data Mining and the Database Developer 5. Statistical Analysis for the Database Developer 6. Database Progression to Database Regression 7. Regularization for Database Improvement 8. Database Development and Assessment 9. Databases and Neural Networks 10. Boosting your Database 11. Database Classification using Support Vector Machines 12. Database Structures and Machine Learning

R and statistical regression


Before we jump right into our modeling, let's take a moment to validate the use of R as our statistical modeling tool.

R is an open-source statistical environment and a powerful programming language that continues to be one of the most popular choices for statistical modeling. Modeled after S and S-Plus, R has an ever-growing, widespread audience as is well maintained by the R core-development team (an international team of volunteer developers).

R and many related resources can easily be found online along with detailed directions for downloading the software, accompanying packages and other sources of documentation. In addition, there are a ton of specialized routines that have been written for R by people all over the world and made freely available as R packages.

Since R is a programming language, it brings the power of programming to your project, but it does require some expertise with the tool. Thankfully, it offers a graphical user interface (GUI) to make...

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