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Book Review: Statistical Learning with Sparsity – The Lasso and Generalizations

As a data scientist, I have a handful of books that serve as important resources for my work in the field – “Statistical Learning with Sparsity – The Lasso and Generalizations” by Trevor Hastie, ...
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The generalization of statistical mechanics makes it possible to regularize the theory of critical phenomena

Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) were its primary formulators. They both worked to establish a bridge ...
JSTOR Daily

Corrections: Generalizations of Mean Square Error Applied to Ridge Regression

Series B (Statistical Methodology) of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society started out simply as the Supplement to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society in the Society's centenary year ...
Nature

Statistical tests for detecting associations with groups of genetic variants: generalization, evaluation, and implementation

With recent advances in sequencing, genotyping arrays, and imputation, GWAS now aim to identify associations with rare and uncommon genetic variants. Here, we describe and evaluate a class of ...