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2025

A deep dive into Linear Regression

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Motivation

Brilliant another blog post on linear regression, how creative! Why would I make this post (I hear no one ask)? Having now dabbled in a few large ML/Statistics projects during my undergrad, I have begun to realise how important it is to have a very strong foundational understanding of core concepts, before trying to undertake more complex ones. So I put my ego and my desire to dive into all the new flashy machine learning models aside, and went to the first chapter of any book on statistical learning. Linear regression.