Lecture 12 – Simple Linear Regression

Presented by Anthony D. Joseph and Suraj Rampure

Content by Suraj Rampure and Ani Adhikari

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Introduction and recap of the modeling process.
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The correlation coefficient and its properties.
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Defining the simple linear regression model, our first model with two parameters and an input variable. Motivating linear regression with the graph of averages.
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Using calculus to derive the optimal model parameters for the simple linear regression model, when we choose squared loss as our loss function.
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Visualizing and interpreting loss surface of the SLR model.
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Interpreting the slope of the simple linear model.
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Defining key terminology in the regression context. Expanding the simple linear model to include any number of features.
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RMSE as a metric of accuracy. Multiple R-squared as a metric of explained variation. Summary.
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