Skip to content

Boostedml

Articles on Statistics and Machine Learning for Healthcare

  • All Posts
  • Publications
  • About

Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis: How to do Linear Regression Analysis in R in Six Steps

Posted on April 16, 2019September 10, 2020 by Alex

In this article we describe how to perform linear regression. We go over some linear…

Read More

Linear Regression: Log Transforming Response

Posted on April 15, 2019September 10, 2020 by Alex

There are several reasons to log transform the response. The obvious one is to fix…

Read More

Linear Regression: Log Transformation of Features

Posted on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 by Alex

In linear regression, you fit the model (1)   However, often the relationship between your…

Read More

Linear Regression Plots: Residuals vs Leverage

Posted on March 30, 2019September 10, 2020 by Alex

In this post we analyze the residuals vs leverage plot. This can help detect outliers…

Read More

The Scale Location Plot: Interpretation in R

Posted on March 29, 2019May 20, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe how to analyze a scale location plot. You may also…

Read More

The QQ Plot in Linear Regression

Posted on March 28, 2019May 20, 2020 by Alex

In this post we describe how to interpret a QQ plot, including how the comparison…

Read More

Linear Regression Plots: Fitted vs Residuals

Posted on March 27, 2019February 2, 2022 by Alex

In this post we describe the fitted vs residuals plot, which allows us to detect…

Read More

Causality: Basics, Potential Outcomes, and Counterfactuals

Posted on March 10, 2019March 12, 2019 by Alex

Note: this is loosely based on Coursera’s A Crash Course on Causality: Inferring Causal Effects…

Read More

Observational vs Experimental Data: Linear Regression, Exogeneity, and Endogeneity

Posted on February 27, 2019March 9, 2019 by Alex

Background Classical statistics was developed to study how to collect and analyze data in the…

Read More

When Should You Use Non-parametric Tests?

Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 by Alex

You should use non-parametric tests when the most naive distributional assumptions of a parametric test…

Read More
« Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.