Category: Learning modules

By Prateek Sharma & Priya Chetty on April 3, 2018 1 Comment

In statistics, to increase the prediction accuracy and interpret-ability of the model, LASSO (Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator) is extremely popular. It is a regression procedure that involves selection and regularisation and was developed in 1989. Lasso regression is an extension of linear regression that uses shrinkage. The lasso imposes a constraint on the sum of the absolute values of the model parameters. Here the sum has a specific constant as an upper bound.

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By Soumya Srivastava on March 20, 2018 4 Comments

Structural equation model is a statistical modeling technique. Structural equation model (SEM) tests estimate or establish relationships between variables. It is a multivariate statistical data analysis technique. SEM analyzes the structural relationships or to establish causal relationships between variables.

 
By Divya Dhuria & Priya Chetty on March 20, 2018 8 Comments

This article explains how to test ARIMA models and identifies the appropriate one for the process of forecasting time series GDP.

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By Prateek Sharma & Priya Chetty on March 9, 2018 1 Comment

Missing data is one of the most common problems in almost all statistical analyses. If the data is not available for all the observations of variables in the model, then it is a case of ‘missing data’.

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By Prateek Sharma & Priya Chetty on February 27, 2018 2 Comments

Markov chain is one of the most important tests in order to deal with independent trials processes. There are two major principal theorems for these processes. The first one is the ‘Law of Large Numbers’ and the second one is the ‘Central Limit Theorem’.

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By Prateek Sharma & Priya Chetty on February 26, 2018 1 Comment

Bootstrap and jackknife are superficially similar statistical techniques that involve re-sampling the data. They are nonparametric and specific resampling techniques that can estimate standard errors and confidence intervals of a population parameter.

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By Divya Narang & Priya Chetty on February 6, 2018 7 Comments

Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) is popularly known as Box-Jenkins method. The emphasis of this method is on analyzing the probabilistic or stochastic properties of a single time series. Unlike regression models where Y is explained by X1 X2….XN regressor (like the introductory case where GDP is explained by GFC and PFC), ARIMA allows Y (GDP) to be explained by its own past or lagged values.

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By Priya Chetty on January 10, 2018 1 Comment

Neural network, popularly known as Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an information processing system with a large number of nodes and connections as part of a structure which helps in processing complex information.

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