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Resolution 5 Fractional Factorial Designs

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At work, I needed to create a resolution V (R5) fractional factorial design for use in a study of the relative effectiveness of various modernization programs.

Kaggle Housing Prices Competition

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This notebook was written to document the steps and techniques used to achieve a top 2% ranking on Kaggle’s Housing Prices Competition.

Random Forests

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As with support vector machines, and as the name implies, classification and regression trees (CART) can be used for either classification or regression task...

Support Vector Machines

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Support Vector Regression (SVR) attempts to include as many data points as possible in the area between two lines. The following figure demonstrates this usi...

Generalized Additive Models

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Recall that if there is a non-linear relationship between predictor and response, we can attempt to transform the predictor using a known function (log, reci...