Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

"We see that the two distributions above look quite similar. How similar are they really? Let's start by computing their means and standard deviations." ...

"In this tutorial, you will ake a 2D contour plot(using matplotlib’s contour plot method) of the posterior probability distribution for linear parameters (m,b ...

The Poisson distribution is a special case of the binomial distribution that it models discrete events. It expresses the probability of a number of relatively rare events occurring in a fixed time if ...

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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls ...