How regression applied in data science

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Saran
2 min readApr 8, 2021

Business Intelligence :

  • Bi is widely used for price optimization and inventory management.
  • In other words, this technique reduces costs and increases profits.

Traditional Methods :

  • Also called predictive analytics, used for predicting future values with good accuracy.

Regression is a model used for describing relationship among variables in our analysis.

Logistic regression :

  • Logistic regression is a non — linear model, values on the vertical line will be 1s and 0s
  • Eg: like filtering job candidates, If selected means 1s otherwise rejected means 0s.

Cluster Analysis :

  • This technique can be applied only when the data are divided into few groups.
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Factor Analysis :

  • It Combines more variables into one.
  • Grouping Explanatory variables together.
  • It reduces dimensionality.

Time Series Analysis :

  • Representation is always in a horizontal line.
  • Variable are independent.
  • This analysis is widely used for measuring Stock price.

Example: Sales Forecasting which uses Time Series Analysis.

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