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Statistics is a scientific approach to inductive inference and prediction based on probabilistic models of the data. By extension, it covers the design of experiments and surveys to gather data for this purpose.

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Pearson correlation method using absolute values and relative values

In general, the correlation coefficient is "invariant to separate changes in location and scale in the two variables". In particular, you can mix relative with absolute values. However, that only wo …
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Augmenting the Cost Function with a Gaussian Prior

Let's look at the example of linear regression. Instead of deriving it from solving the normal equations, we can motivate it by thinking about it as finding the conditional distribution $P(y|x)$. Let' …
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Where to find statistically relevant documentation of common Python packages?

I think the documentation, at least for your example, is not too obscure. It doesn't tell you what kind of interpolation it uses because it doesn't use any: resample is a deferred operation. In order …
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Test for heteroscedasticity in time series

You can use the same tests on the raw time series. You are not required to use it on the residuals. That is just what these tests are usually used for (if you are interested in the quality of your mod …
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How many features to sample using Random Forests

I think in the original paper they suggest using $\log_2(N +1$), but either way the idea is the following: The number of randomly selected features can influence the generalization error in two ways: …
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