by Saneesh V | Aug 11, 2018 | Analytics, R
Propensity scores are an alternative method to estimate the effect of receiving treatment when random assignment of treatments to subjects is not feasible. The concept of Propensity score matching (PSM) was first introduced by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) in a paper...
by Saneesh V | Aug 10, 2018 | Analytics, R, Spreadsheet Modelling
Optimization is a technique for finding out the best possible solution for a given problem for all the possible solutions. Optimization uses a rigorous mathematical model to find out the most efficient solution to the given problem. What is optimization? Optimization...
by Saneesh V | Aug 9, 2018 | Analytics, R
The article studies the advantage of Support Vector Regression (SVR) over Simple Linear Regression (SLR) models for predicting real values, using the same basic idea as Support Vector Machines (SVM) use for classification. The article studies the advantage of Support...
by Saneesh V | Aug 7, 2018 | Analytics, R
It All Starts With The Text There is so much of information lying in the text posts made by you and me and all others about all the trending topics today. Being in our respective firms, big or small, each of us collect some data related to our respective businesses...
by Saneesh V | Aug 6, 2018 | Analytics, R
Handling missing values is one of the worst nightmares a data analyst dreams of. In situations, a wise analyst ‘imputes’ the missing values instead of dropping them from the data. Missing Data in Analysis At times while working on data, one may come across missing...
by Saneesh V | Aug 5, 2018 | Analytics, R
In this article, we aim to discuss various GLMs that are widely used in the industry. We focus on: a) log-linear regression b) interpreting log-transformations and c) binary logistic regression. Editor’s note:Data files discussed below can be acquired here:...
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