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Jan 13: Statistics in Practice

Statistics in Practice

In this Brief, we look at prosaic, but lucrative applications of predictive analytics and forecasting to the automotive industry.  Our spotlight is on our 3-course Predictive Analytics Mastery Series. Start this week with:

See you in class!

Peter Bruce,
Founder and President

The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com


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Course Spotlight

Our spotlight this week is on our Predictive Analytics Mastery Series of 3 courses (your third course is just half the regular tuition).  This Mastery Series is based on the best-selling text Data Mining for Business Analytics, whose authors designed and help teach the Mastery Series.  You will learn:

  • How to use linear and logistic regression, decision trees and random forests, k-nearest neighbors, Bayesian classifiers, neural nets and more
  • How to use holdout data to assess the accuracy of data mining models
  • How to identify customer segments using clustering
  • How to develop recommender systems using collabroative filtering and association rules

Start this week with

See you in class!


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