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What level of basic understanding should we assume? #11

Open edrubin opened 6 years ago

edrubin commented 6 years ago

How much of math and stat should we assume that our audience understands? E.g., should I assume they know correlation, variance/standard deviation, and hypothesis testing?

SigmaMonstR commented 6 years ago

I think the rule should be that any equation needs to be explained. Im going through logistic regression and i think that showing the logit function is valuable, but showing MLE in depth might be overboard other than mentioning that its how the betas are updated and identified.

In kNNs, ill show an equation for how euclidean distance and how to calculate a condition probability, then everything else is pseudocode On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 10:04 Ed Rubin notifications@github.com wrote:

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