July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 1m
English
The US Crime dataset introduced in Chapter 1, Introduction to Ensemble Techniques, is an example of why the linear regression model might be a good fit. In this example, we are interested in understanding the crime rate (R) as a function of thirteen related variables such as average age, the southern state indicator, and so on. Mathematically, the linear regression model is as follows:
Here,
are the p-covariates,
is ...