First, a bit of backstory. The origins of Bayesian statistics stems from one thought experiment Bayes wrote that wasn’t even discovered until after his death. Bayes imagined himself with his back to a perfectly square, perfectly flat table. An assistant would throw a ball and it would…

…you make improper statistical assumptions and become the laughing stock of the scientific community and are forced to leave your university and get a job at FedEx and every holiday your parents don’t say anything but they heavily imply that you wasted your…

The following post is the result of several hours of red error text:

After successfully performing the multiple regression on the mtcars data set. I decided to attempt the same thing on another data set. Initially, I chose the personality…

Sensationalist headlines aside, this week’s readings were concerned with the flaws of the current state of science with a particular emphasis on p-values and other measures of significance. “Significance”, being the measure in which we decide whether or not a particular data set…

Having never heard of, “K-Nearest Neighbors” in my statistical career before, I was interested in what this method could show that simple square regression could not. The K value of K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) seems to be determined primarily by how many variables are…