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Oct
27
What are the Key Differences between Multivariate Testing (MVT) and A/B Testing?

What are the Key Differences between Multivariate Testing (MVT) and A/B Testing?

Multivariate testing (MVT) techniques apply statistical hypothesis testing on multi-variable systems. Different from A/B testing which changes one variation
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Oct
19
What is Isolation Forest?

What is Isolation Forest?

Short Answer Isolation Forest (iForest) is a machine learning algorithm for anomaly detection. Instances, which have an average shorter path
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Oct
16
What is Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)?

What is Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)?

Short Answer A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a composite distribution made by \(K\) Gaussian sub-distributions each with its own
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Oct
14
What is Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm?

What is Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm?

Short Answer Expectation Maximization (EM) is an iterative algorithm for finding the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimated of parameters in
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Oct
14
What is Support Vector Machines (SVM)?

What is Support Vector Machines (SVM)?

A support-vector machine (SVM) constructs a hyperplane or set of hyperplanes in a high- or infinite-dimensional space, which can be
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Oct
13
What is LARS?

What is LARS?

Short Answer LARS (least angle regression) is an algorithm for computing linear regression with \(l_{1}\) regularization stepwisely. The basic
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Oct
11
What is Isotonic Regression?

What is Isotonic Regression?

Short Answer Isotonic regression is similar to linear regression, except for some monotonic constraints. Additionally, linear regression is global, while
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Oct
11
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)

What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)

Short Answer Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a natural language processing technique for analyzing documents and terms contained within them.
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Oct
07
What is Canopy Clustering

What is Canopy Clustering

Short Answer Canopy clustering is a pre-clustering algorithm, which performs clustering in two stages: Stage 1. Use an "unexpensive&
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Oct
06
What is Streaming K-Means

What is Streaming K-Means

Streaming k-means is a version of k-means where the dataset is fed in a stream rather than all dumped at
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