Statistical Learning
The top courses for aspiring data scientists - KDnuggets
Data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning – from theories and nascent beginnings, these fields have grown to become extremely important not just to IT, e-commerce, and entertainment, but also financial services, pharmaceuticals, disease prevention and public health services as well diagnostic tools. The opportunities are immense, and you only need to equip yourself for them. Here are four courses that can give you the necessary skills to lead businesses in the 21st century. All of them include Python programming as a course component. Most of them require an undergraduate knowledge of statistics, calculus, linear algebra, and probability, so we recommend checking your course of interest for the specifics.
Deep Learning Prerequisites: Logistic Regression in Python
Online Courses Udemy - Data science techniques for professionals and students - learn the theory behind logistic regression and code in Python BESTSELLER Created by Lazy Programmer Inc English [Auto-generated], Portuguese [Auto-generated], 1 more Students also bought Data Science: Deep Learning in Python Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning in Python Advanced AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Python Deep Learning: Advanced NLP and RNNs Deep Learning A-Z: Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks Preview this course GET COUPON CODE Description This course is a lead-in to deep learning and neural networks - it covers a popular and fundamental technique used in machine learning, data science and statistics: logistic regression. We cover the theory from the ground up: derivation of the solution, and applications to real-world problems. We show you how one might code their own logistic regression module in Python. This course does not require any external materials. Everything needed (Python, and some Python libraries) can be obtained for free.
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) in Python
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, or MARS, is an algorithm for complex non-linear regression problems. The algorithm involves finding a set of simple linear functions that in aggregate result in the best predictive performance. In this way, MARS is a type of ensemble of simple linear functions and can achieve good performance on challenging regression problems with many input variables and complex non-linear relationships. In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline models in Python. Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) in Python Photo by Sei F, some rights reserved.
Learning to extrapolate using continued fractions: Predicting the critical temperature of superconductor materials
Moscato, Pablo, Haque, Mohammad Nazmul, Huang, Kevin, Sloan, Julia, de Oliveira, Jon C.
In Artificial Intelligence we often seek to identify an unknown target function of many variables $y=f(\mathbf{x})$ giving a limited set of instances $S=\{(\mathbf{x^{(i)}},y^{(i)})\}$ with $\mathbf{x^{(i)}} \in D$ where $D$ is a domain of interest. We refer to $S$ as the training set and the final quest is to identify the mathematical model that approximates this target function for new $\mathbf{x}$; with the set $T=\{ \mathbf{x^{(j)}} \} \subset D$ with $T \neq S$ (i.e. thus testing the model generalisation). However, for some applications, the main interest is approximating well the unknown function on a larger domain $D'$ that contains $D$. In cases involving the design of new structures, for instance, we may be interested in maximizing $f$; thus, the model derived from $S$ alone should also generalize well in $D'$ for samples with values of $y$ larger than the largest observed in $S$. In that sense, the AI system would provide important information that could guide the design process, e.g., using the learned model as a surrogate function to design new lab experiments. We introduce a method for multivariate regression based on iterative fitting of a continued fraction by incorporating additive spline models. We compared it with established methods such as AdaBoost, Kernel Ridge, Linear Regression, Lasso Lars, Linear Support Vector Regression, Multi-Layer Perceptrons, Random Forests, Stochastic Gradient Descent and XGBoost. We tested the performance on the important problem of predicting the critical temperature of superconductors based on physical-chemical characteristics.
Positive-Unlabelled Survival Data Analysis
Toyabe, Tomoki, Hasegawa, Yasuhiro, Hoshino, Takahiro
In this paper, we consider a novel framework of positive-unlabeled data in which as positive data survival times are observed for subjects who have events during the observation time as positive data and as unlabeled data censoring times are observed but whether the event occurs or not are unknown for some subjects. We consider two cases: (1) when censoring time is observed in positive data, and (2) when it is not observed. For both cases, we developed parametric models, nonparametric models, and machine learning models and the estimation strategies for these models. Simulation studies show that under this data setup, traditional survival analysis may yield severely biased results, while the proposed estimation method can provide valid results.
CYPUR-NN: Crop Yield Prediction Using Regression and Neural Networks
Ramesh, Sandesh, Hebbar, Anirudh, Yadav, Varun, Gunta, Thulasiram, Balachandra, A
Our recent study using historic data of paddy yield and associated conditions include humidity, luminescence, and temperature. By incorporating regression models and neural networks (NN), one can produce highly satisfactory forecasting of paddy yield. Simulations indicate that our model can predict paddy yield with high accuracy while concurrently detecting diseases that may exist and are oblivious to the human eye. Crop Yield Prediction Using Regression and Neural Networks (CYPUR-NN) is developed here as a system that will facilitate agriculturists and farmers to predict yield from a picture or by entering values via a web interface. CYPUR-NN has been tested on stock images and the experimental results are promising.
Comparative Analysis of Extreme Verification Latency Learning Algorithms
One of the more challenging real-world problems in computational intelligence is to learn from non-stationary streaming data, also known as concept drift. Perhaps even a more challenging version of this scenario is when -- following a small set of initial labeled data -- the data stream consists of unlabeled data only. Such a scenario is typically referred to as learning in initially labeled nonstationary environment, or simply as extreme verification latency (EVL). Because of the very challenging nature of the problem, very few algorithms have been proposed in the literature up to date. This work is a very first effort to provide a review of some of the existing algorithms (important/prominent) in this field to the research community. More specifically, this paper is a comprehensive survey and comparative analysis of some of the EVL algorithms to point out the weaknesses and strengths of different approaches from three different perspectives: classification accuracy, computational complexity and parameter sensitivity using several synthetic and real world datasets.
PSD2 Explainable AI Model for Credit Scoring
Torrent, Neus Llop, Visani, Giorgio, Bagli, Enrico
The aim of this paper is to develop and test advanced analytical methods to improve the prediction accuracy of Credit Risk Models, preserving at the same time the model interpretability. In particular, the project focuses on applying an explainable machine learning model to PSD2-related databases. The input data were obtained solely from synthetic account transactions generated from a pool of commercial banks from a pool of Italian commercial banks. Over the total proven models, CatBoost has shown the highest performance. The algorithm implementation produces a GINI of 0.45 after tuning the hyper-parameters combined with their inherent class-weight resampling method. SHAP package is used to provide a global and local interpretation of the model predictions to formulate a human-comprehensive approach to understanding the decision-maker algorithm. The 20 most important features are selected using the Shapley values to present a full human-understandable model that reveals how the attributes of an individual are related to its model prediction.
TabPy: Combining Python and Tableau - KDnuggets
Can we integrate the power of Python calculation with a Tableau? That question was encourage me to start exploring the possibility of using Python calculation in Tableau, and I ended up with a TabPy. How can we use TabPy to integrating Python and Tableau? In this article, I will introduce TabPy and go through an example of how we can use it. TabPy is an Analytics Extension from Tableau which enables us as a user to execute Python scripts and saved functions using Tableau.
Introduction to Time Series Analysis in Python - KDnuggets
A time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and the daily closing value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. So any dataset in which is taken at successive equally spaced points in time.