This weekend – for large values of “weekend”, namely 4 days – I have a friend staying with me. I’m not really on vacation anymore – but he is.
I have made progress on regression. I now know how to completely eliminate multicollinearity from a data set – but I will not have time to write this up this weekend. In other words, expect no technical post this coming Monday. Still, I have the material for one.
My visitor pointed out that wired.com has another list of 9 essentials for geeks: 9 Equations True Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know.
If nothing else, this is worth looking at for all of the comments from readers that followed.
Generally speaking, if I were to propose such a list, I would focus more on relationships than on single equations. Let me give you a few examples… although I will omit almost all of the details.
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