Skip to content

Boostedml

Articles on Statistics and Machine Learning for Healthcare

  • All Posts
  • Publications
  • About

Attention Mechanisms: A Geometric View

Posted on February 14, 2021February 26, 2021 by Alex

Introduction In this post we describe attention mechanisms by motivating it using geometric intuition. The…

Read More

The Nyström Method for Finding Eigenpairs of a Kernel Function

Posted on August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe the Nyström method for finding the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of…

Read More

Gradient Descent and Momentum: The Heavy Ball Method

Posted on July 13, 2020September 4, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe the use of momentum to speed up gradient descent. We…

Read More

Dealing with Bugs/Deprecated Code in Popular Github Repos: Look at the Forks

Posted on July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 by Alex

Popular papers often have code on Github, but the authors are super busy writing new…

Read More

Projected Gradient Descent for Constrained Optimization

Posted on June 28, 2020September 4, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe how to do gradient descent with constraints. We first describe…

Read More

Gradient Descent for Convex Optimization: The Basic Idea

Posted on June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe the high-level idea behind gradient descent for convex optimization. Much…

Read More

Decision Trees, Entropy, and Information Gain

Posted on June 20, 2020September 13, 2020 by Alex

An important class of machine learning models is decision trees: you can use them for…

Read More

Visualizing Time Series in R

Posted on May 16, 2020May 17, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe several methods for visualizing time series data. Time series visualization…

Read More

Visualizing Missing Data in R: The Basics with VIM

Posted on May 14, 2020May 20, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe basic visualization of missing data patterns in R with VIM….

Read More

Stationarity and Non-stationary Time Series with Applications in R

Posted on May 10, 2020May 20, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe stationary and non-stationary time series. We first ask why we…

Read More
1 2 3 … 7 Next »

Categories

  • general
  • hypothesis testing
  • linear and generalized linear models
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • Missing Data
  • Neural Networks+Deep Learning
  • Numerical Linear Algebra
  • optimization
  • Survival
  • Time series
  • Uncategorized
© All Right Reserved
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Bloge by Canyon Themes.