Akaike information criterion — Akaike s information criterion, developed by Hirotsugu Akaike under the name of an information criterion (AIC) in 1971 and proposed in Akaike (1974), is a measure of the goodness of fit of an estimated statistical model. It is grounded in the… … Wikipedia
Hirotsugu Akaike — nihongo|Hirotsugu Akaike|赤池 弘次| Akaike Hirotsugu |In academic publications Hirotugu without an S (born November 5, 1927) is a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has… … Wikipedia
Ordinary least squares — This article is about the statistical properties of unweighted linear regression analysis. For more general regression analysis, see regression analysis. For linear regression on a single variable, see simple linear regression. For the… … Wikipedia
Occam's razor — For the aerial theatre company, see Ockham s Razor Theatre Company. It is possible to describe the other planets in the solar system as revolving around the Earth, but that explanation is unnecessarily complex compared to the modern consensus… … Wikipedia
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Likelihood function — In statistics, a likelihood function (often simply the likelihood) is a function of the parameters of a statistical model, defined as follows: the likelihood of a set of parameter values given some observed outcomes is equal to the probability of … Wikipedia
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Determining the number of clusters in a data set — Determining the number of clusters in a data set, a quantity often labeled k as in the k means algorithm, is a frequent problem in data clustering, and is a distinct issue from the process of actually solving the clustering problem. For a certain … Wikipedia
Feature selection — Feature selection, also known as variable selection, feature reduction, attribute selection or variable subset selection, is the technique, commonly used in machine learning, of selecting a subset of relevant features for building robust learning … Wikipedia
Quantitative comparative linguistics — is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree (or network) to represent a… … Wikipedia
Linear predictive coding — (LPC) is a tool used mostly in audio signal processing and speech processing for representing the spectral envelope of a digital signal of speech in compressed form, using the information of a linear predictive model. It is one of the most… … Wikipedia