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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Coin Flip

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Imagine that you’re being asked to flip a coin n times and to estimate the probability of the coin being heads-side-up. Typically the probability would be 0....

Logistic Regression (with Gradient Ascent)

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Most of this information (especially notation) comes from Stanford’s CS229 lecture notes and the rest comes from Bishop’s “Pattern Recognition and Machine Le...

Linear Regression From Scratch

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Linear regression (single variable) begins with this: We have a feature variable (X) and a target variable (y) that have a linear relationship.

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