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IPO Exploration

Inspired by recent headlines like “Fear Overtakes Greed in IPO Market after WeWork Debacle” and “This Year’s IPO Class is Least Profitable since the Tech Bubble”, today we’ll explore historical...continue reading.

Partial Dependence Plot (PDP) of GRNN

The function grnn.margin() (https://github.com/statcompute/yager/blob/master/code/grnn.margin.R) was my first attempt to explore the relationship between each predictor and the response in a General Regression Neural Network, which usually is considered the Black-Box...continue reading.

discrim 0.0.1

The new package discrim contains parsnip bindings for additional classification models, including: Linear discriminant analysis (LDA, simple and L2 regularized) Regularized discriminant analysis (RDA, via Friedman (1989)) Flexible discriminant analys…continue reading.

Le Monde puzzle [#1114]

Another very low-key arithmetic problem as Le Monde current mathematical puzzle: 32761 is 181² and the difference of two cubes, which ones? And 181=9²+10², the sum of two consecutive integers....continue reading.

Merge MLP And CNN in Keras

In the post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/an-example-of-merge-layer-in-keras), it was shown how to build a merge-layer DNN by using the Keras Sequential model. In the example below, I tried to scratch a merge-layer DNN...continue reading.

Shiny 1.4.0

Shiny 1.4.0 has been released! This release mostly focuses on under-the-hood fixes, but there are a few user-facing changes as well. If you’ve written a Shiny app before, you’ve probably...continue reading.