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This is the second part of the analysis for the data from JH Dorrington Farm. You might want to read the first part before reading this one. Before we put on our science hats, let us make an outline for what we will do. Previously we split the data into training and test sets 80/20. We will fit all of our models and calibrate them on the training set. Decisions about keeping/dropping predictors, transforming predictors and which model to chose will be left to the test set. [Read More]

Here I will analyse a real life problem. My friend Chris at JH Dorrington Farm has kindly provided me with the data and allowed me to make this post. This will be several parts as I explore the data and try to fit various models. I’m going to stop milking this introduction and get right to it. My friend Chris has been collecting various forms of data about his cows. [Read More]

If you have a data set with large number of predictors, you might use some basic models to try and eliminate some of the predictors that don’t show a significant relationship to the response variable. In such cases it is important to look at the correlation between the predictors. How important? Let’s find out. Let us consider a very simple example here with two predictors and one response variable. [Read More]