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Classical and robust principal component scores for crime data, computed in SAS

Rick WicklinAugust 9, 2017 0

Robust principal component analysis in SAS

Recently, I was asked whether SAS can perform a principal component analysis (PCA) that is robust to the presence of outliers in the data. A PCA requires a data matrix, an estimate for the center of the data, and an estimate for the variance/covariance of the variables. Classically, these estimates

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Fiona McNeillAugust 4, 2017 0

Try it - you'll like it...

It's a common mantra many parents use to encourage their children to expand their food choices and try something new. Even as adults we’re often more comfortable easing into the unfamiliar, taking small bites, tiny samples, even dipping a toe in the water before diving in headfirst. Software is no

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonAugust 3, 2017 0

Machine learning best practices: Put your models to work

This is the fourth post in my series of 10 machine learning best practices. It’s common to build models on historical training data and then apply the model to new data to make decisions. This process is called model deployment or scoring. I often hear data scientists say, “It took

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