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COURSE TRAINERS
Mark Badham
Mark is the Managing Director of Leading Edge Business Solutions. Mark has been programming since the age of 10 when he wrote his fist Basic Program on an Apple IIe. He has always been passionate about computers and education and started tutoring matric students in 1994. Mark has been training advanced Linux courses, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers since November 1999. In 2002 Mark began training Perl courses. Mark was among the first group to write the LPI level 2 Certification in South Africa in 2004. Since March 2006 Mark has been training PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. Since 2009 Mark has started training Java and Python.
Mark's formal qualifications include:
Bsc (Engineering) Electrical
Institution: University of the Witwatersrand.
Final Subjects IncludedComputer Engineering
Certification: Level 2 Certification
Institution: Linux Professional Institute
Details
Performing regressions is a powerful method to help you understand the relationships between your variables, which makes it a must for anyone working with data. Thankfully, we can use the Python language to make this important task much easier and more efficient.
In this course you will learn to:
- Perform regressions using Python
- Analyse the strength of correlations
- Set conditional expectations
- Analyse the regression line
- Employ linear models in real-life scenarios
- Understand counfounding
- Perform Lease Squares Estimates
- Understand association vs causation
Delivery Methods
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of six delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Delivery Method | Duration | Price (excl. VAT) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classroom | 4 Days | ZAR 11,000.00 | Get a Quote | |
| Live Virtual Training | 4 Days | ZAR 9,000.00 | Get a Quote |
Discounts Available
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
Brochure:
Audience
- Data scientists
- Programmers
- Business analysts
- Engineers
- Scientists
Pre-Requisites
Leading Training's Python Course or equivalent knowledge
Course Outline / Curriculum
Regression
- Case study: is height hereditary?
- The correlation coefficient
- Sample correlation is a random variable
- Correlation is not always a useful summary
- Sample correlation is a random variable
- Conditional expectations
- The regression line
- Regression improves precision
- Bivariate normal distribution (advanced)
- Variance explained
- Warning: there are two regression lines
- Regression improves precision
- Exercises
Linear models
- Case study: Moneyball
- Sabermetics
- Baseball basics
- No awards for BB
- Base on balls or stolen bases?
- Regression applied to baseball statistics
- Sabermetics
- Confounding
- Understanding confounding through stratification
- Multivariate regression
- Understanding confounding through stratification
- Least squares estimates
- Interpreting linear models
- Least Squares Estimates (LSE)
- The lm function
- LSE are random variables
- Predicted values are random variables
- Interpreting linear models
- Exercises
- Linear regression in the tidyverse
- The broom package
- The broom package
- Exercises
- Case study: Moneyball (continued)
- Adding salary and position information
- Picking nine players
- Adding salary and position information
- The regression fallacy
- Measurement error models
- Exercises
Association is not causation
- Spurious correlation
- Outliers
- Reversing cause and effect
- Confounders
- Example: UC Berkeley admissions
- Confounding explained graphically
- Average after stratifying
- Example: UC Berkeley admissions
- Simpson’s paradox
- Exercises
Schedule Dates and Booking
To apply for a booking, click on the relevant "Book Now" button below.
Note: places are only fully secured once payment has been made.
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of six delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Start Date | End Date | Branch | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 7 Apr 2025 | Thu 10 Apr 2025 | Fourways | Scheduled |