Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceThe Cramér–Rao BoundYou can’t always get what you wantOct 223Oct 223
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceFisher Information: A Clinical Dissection of an Enigmatic ConceptCan you guess the true fraction of yellow M&Ms in the universe?Oct 83Oct 83
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceHow Biased is Your Regression Model?A deep dive into the causes, effects, and remedies for bias in regression modelsSep 133Sep 133
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceNonresponse Bias: How the Silent Majority Decided an Election, and Sunk a Beloved PublisherAn intro to a statistical bias that makes its brutal presence felt through a complete absence of dataAug 273Aug 273
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceOmitted Variable BiasAn intro to an especially sneaky bias that invades many regression modelsAug 62Aug 62
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceUnderstanding Conditional Probability and Bayes’ TheoremA primer on two concepts that form the substrate of regression analysisJul 182Jul 182
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Partial Autocorrelation CoefficientBeyond the obvious titular tribute to Dr. Strangelove, we’ll learn how to use the PACF to select the most influential regression variables…Jun 262Jun 262
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceStatistical Convergence and its ConsequencesA story about convergence of random variables set within the extraordinary voyage of the NimrodMay 152May 152
Sachin DateinTowards Data ScienceA Proof of the Central Limit TheoremIf you like chocolate, this proof will feel like the multi-layered magic of a Mars barApr 28Apr 28
Sachin DateinTowards Data SciencePierre-Simon Laplace, Inverse Probability, and the Central Limit TheoremOn Laplace’s brilliant solution to inverse probability and his discovery of the Central Limit TheoremMar 5Mar 5