
the cyclist
Alden Scientific
Head of Modeling and Statistics at Alden Scientific. Obsessive runner. Professional Interests: Predictive modeling, statistics. (I don't respond to email via author page, but will usually look at a question if you send me a link to it.)
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Shapley based feature selection
The Shapley values don't require the class labels (i.e. the actual responses) to determine feature importance. The Shapley valu...
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Project Euler: Problem 4, Palindromic numbers
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 ...
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Project Euler: Problem 3, Largest prime factor
The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. What is the largest prime factor of the number being input, input might be ui...
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Solve a System of Linear Equations
Example: If a system of linear equations in x₁ and x₂ is: 2x₁ + x₂ = 2 x₁ - 4 x₂ = 3 Then the coefficient matrix (A) is: 2 ...
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Verify Law of Large Numbers
If a large number of fair N-sided dice are rolled, the average of the simulated rolls is likely to be close to the mean of 1,2,....
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Word Counting and Indexing
You are given a list of strings, each being a list of words divided by spaces. Break the strings into words, then return a maste...
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Magic is simple (for beginners)
Determine for a magic square of order n, the magic sum m. For example m=15 for a magic square of order 3.
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Rotate Matrix @180 degree
Rotate Matrix @180 degree Example A=[8 1 6; 3 5 7; 4 9 2], then answer would be [2 9 4;...
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Square root
Given x (a matrix), give back another matrix, where all the elements are the square roots of x's elements.
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Calculate the average value of the elements in the array
Calculate the average value of the elements in the array
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the average value of the elements
Calculate the average value of the elements in the array
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Length of the hypotenuse
Given short sides of lengths a and b, calculate the length c of the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle. <<https://i.imgu...
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Maximum value in a matrix
Find the maximum value in the given matrix. For example, if A = [1 2 3; 4 7 8; 0 9 1]; then the answer is 9.
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Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius
Given an input vector F containing temperature values in Fahrenheit, return an output vector C that contains the values in Celsi...
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Calculate Amount of Cake Frosting
Given two input variables r and h, which stand for the radius and height of a cake, calculate the surface area of the cake you n...
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Find the Oldest Person in a Room
Given two input vectors: * |name| - user last names * |age| - corresponding age of the person Return the name of the ol...
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Preserving More Decimal Places When Importing Excel Files with readtable in MATLAB
All decimal places are retained for me ... % Change the format format long % Read the file r = readtable("Lab.xlsx"); % H...
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How to get MPE (Mean Percentage Error) with plsregress
The documentation doesn't seem to indicate any way to change the metric that is optimized. (This is unsurprising to me.) I can ...
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Why is bootci giving different interval than prctile?
Because your prctile calculation should be ci = prctile(bootstat, [(alpha/2)*100,(1-(alpha/2))*100]);
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Tiling stacks of boxplots. Each stack contains 5 boxplots
Would subplot(2,5,1) ... subplot(2,5,10) do what you want? Also, I would highly recommend using tiledlayout over subplot. It ta...
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how to apply PCA over 6000x82 data
Take a look at this answer of mine which is effectively a tutorial on the MATLAB pca function.
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Why is pagemtimes slower than just coding up the matrix multiplication?Especially on GPU.
It seems to me that the two functions are not calculating the same thing, based on the size of their respective outputs: rng ...
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SVM Fitcsvm() thresholds vs ROC curve thresholds
fitcsvm() fits the best possible SVM to the data. That function itself does not make the predictions. The resulting model objec...
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