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Julia for Data Science

You're reading from   Julia for Data Science high-performance computing simplified

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289699
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anshul Joshi Anshul Joshi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Groundwork – Julia's Environment 2. Data Munging FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Exploration 4. Deep Dive into Inferential Statistics 5. Making Sense of Data Using Visualization 6. Supervised Machine Learning 7. Unsupervised Machine Learning 8. Creating Ensemble Models 9. Time Series 10. Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation System 11. Introduction to Deep Learning

Distribution fitting


Distribution fitting is the fitting of a probability distribution to a series of data to predict the probability of variable phenomena in a certain interval. We can get good predictions from the distribution, which is a close fit to the data. Depending on the characteristics of the distribution and of the phenomenon, some can be fitted more closely with the data:

julia> d = fit(Distribution_type, dataset) 

This fits a distribution of type Distribution_type to a given dataset; dataset.x is of the array type and comprises all the samples. The fit function finds the best way to fit the distribution.

Distribution selection

The distribution is selected by the symmetry or the skewness of the data with respect to the mean value.

Symmetrical distributions

For symmetrical distributions tending to have the bell curve, the normal distribution and the logistic distributions are most suited. When the kurtosis is higher, the values are spread far away from the center, and then...

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