S2 Week 5 - Regression and inference

Monday's and Wednesday's Lectures

In these lectures we discover the probabilistic basis of Linear and Logistic regression, and learn about Generalised Linear Models, a powerful technique for modelling many different types of relationships in data.

• Monday: Slides to be annotated and slides as annotated during the lecture
• Wednesday: Slides to be annotated and slides as annotated during the lecture
• Notebook and data file from the lecture

Task

Preparation for the S2 Week 6 Workshop on inferential statistics exercises.

Lab

This week's lab is on web scraping, which was covered earlier in the course. As is the way with web scraping, the site that we scraped is now no longer in the same format, so some examples in the original lab don't work. There are still some useful nuggets there, including on how to do web scraping ethically and on the BeautifulSoup package. We'll try to fix the lab, but it may not happen quickly.