Books, videos and courses I've done, am doing or want to do, for the curious and for my own reference. Read/watched/took: Machine Learning with Andrew Ng Biostatistics Boot Camp 1&2 with Brian Caffo - Link to 2 Data Science For Business CS231N with Andrej Karpathy Statistical Rethinking Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis Introduction to Statistical Learning… Continue reading What I’m reading/watching/taking
Month: June 2018
Linear Regression vs. Decision Trees: Handling Outliers
In regression tasks, it's often assumed that decision trees are more robust to outliers than linear regression. See this Quora question for a typical example. I believe this is also mentioned in the book "Introduction to Statistical Learning", which may be the source of the notion. Predictions from a decision tree are based on the… Continue reading Linear Regression vs. Decision Trees: Handling Outliers
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