Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus

Speaker:  Josh Startmer,  Founder of StatQuest

Title:

StatQuest: Origins plus musings on the intersection of Statistics and Machine Learning.

ABSTRACT: Although closely related, subtle but important differences separate machine learning practitioners from statisticians. In this talk, we will use statistical linear models to highlight these differences. Then, we will show how to overcome them by combining linear models with regularization, a machine learning method. The end result gives us the best of both statistics and machine learning in the form of a model that allows us to investigate mechanisms while being amenable to big datasets.