Linear Regression

Abstract

Linear regression the de facto statistical learning method for which many other more and less advanced methods are based upon yet one often forget to marvel in its wonder. This talk is an attempt to do just that. Hopefully I will have the chance to give this talk again. In this talk I will reveal linear trends in non-linear phenomena, pull the cover on common statistical tests which are in fact linear regressions and finally I will relate optimization theory from linear regression to cognitive learning models and neural networks.