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Clojure for Data Science
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Clojure for Data Science

by Henry Garner
September 2015
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
13h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Regression

While it may be useful to know that two variables are correlated, we can't use this information alone to predict the weights of Olympic swimmers given their height or vice versa. In establishing a correlation, we have measured the strength and sign of a relationship, but not the slope. Knowing the expected rate of change for one variable given a unit change in the other is required in order to make predictions.

What we'd like to determine is an equation that relates the specific value of one variable, called the independent variable, to the expected value of the other, the dependent variable. For example, if our linear equation predicts the weight given the height, then the height is our independent variable and the weight is our dependent ...

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