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Sean Ammirati, the creator of Stats Works is a Data Scientist from NYC. He enjoys musing over statistical problems and analytical puzzles.

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Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Out...analyze? (Part 4) Sentiment Analysis Model
posted in Survivor
Wed 15 December 2021

Using sentiment analysis and modeling it using linear regression for inference of contestants mentioned on r/survivor

Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Out...analyze? (Part 3) Sentiment Analysis Exploratory Analysis
posted in Survivor
Thu 25 November 2021

Using sentiment analysis for contestants mentioned on r/survivor

Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Out...analyze? (Part 2) Looking at Reddit Mentions
posted in Survivor
Fri 05 November 2021

Digging into some of the Reddit data available on r/survivor

Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Out...analyze? (Part 1) Collecting The Data
posted in Survivor
Sun 17 October 2021

A first in a series about analyzing the reality TV show Survivor using Data Science.

Hidden Markov Models Extensions
posted in Markov Chains
Fri 24 January 2020

A overview of extensions of HMMs, including the forward backward algorithm and the Baum-Welch algorithm.

Heteroskedacity with Weighted Least Squares
posted in Linear Models
Thu 24 January 2019

A theoretical approach to the problem of heteroskedacity with WLS.

Constrained Least Squares
posted in Linear Models
Sat 29 December 2018

A theoretical approach to a constrained least squares problem.

HMMs: Viterbi Algorithm
posted in Markov Chains
Sun 09 December 2018

A overview of the viterbi algorithm for HMMs.

Hotelling's T-Test Example
posted in Multivariate Analysis
Sun 18 November 2018

An example of using the multivariate analogue of the t-test.

Generalized Linear Models An Exercise
posted in Linear Models
Mon 05 November 2018

A look at the results of marathon runners with various distributions in a GLM.

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