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Statistical Application Development with R and Python - Second Edition

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Statistical Application Development with R and Python - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Statistical Analysis involves collecting and examining data to describe the nature of data that needs to be analyzed. It helps you explore the relation of data and build models to make better decisions. This book explores statistical concepts along with R and Python, which are well integrated from the word go. Almost every concept has an R code going with it which exemplifies the strength of R and applications. The R code and programs have been further strengthened with equivalent Python programs. Thus, you will first understand the data characteristics, descriptive statistics and the exploratory attitude, which will give you firm footing of data analysis. Statistical inference will complete the technical footing of statistical methods. Regression, linear, logistic modeling, and CART, builds the essential toolkit. This will help you complete complex problems in the real world. You will begin with a brief understanding of the nature of data and end with modern and advanced statistical models like CART. Every step is taken with DATA and R code, and further enhanced by Python. The data analysis journey begins with exploratory analysis, which is more than simple, descriptive, data summaries. You will then apply linear regression modeling, and end with logistic regression, CART, and spatial statistics. By the end of this book you will be able to apply your statistical learning in major domains at work or in your projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Statistical Application Development with R and Python - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to build a linear regression model, check for violations in the model assumptions, fix the multicollinearity problem, and finally how to find the best model. Here, we were aided by two important assumptions: the output being a continuous variable and the normality assumption for the errors. The linear regression model provides the best footing for the general regression problems. However, when the output variable is discrete, binary, or multi-category data, the linear regression model lets us down. This is not actually a let down as it was never intended to solve this class of problems.

Thus, our next chapter will focus on the problem of regression models for binary data. Implementing the regression model and its diagnostics in both the software has been cleanly done throughout the chapter.