Published onApril 6, 2026Variable Selection, Ridge, Lasso, Elastic NetRegressionMachine learningStatisticsRRidge, lasso and elastic net returned identical test error, to the last digit. The reason is a mistake hiding in a workflow you have copied.
Published onMarch 30, 2026How to Read Logistic Regression OutputRegressionStatisticsRYour model says 1.60. That cannot be a probability. Four things that go wrong reading logistic output, and none of them throw an error.
Published onMarch 23, 2026The R-Squared Trap: When Cleaning BackfiresRegressionModel diagnosticsStatisticsRI removed 53 outliers. R-squared rose from 0.818 to 0.856 and the model got worse. Every number that improved ignored the rows I deleted.
Published onMarch 16, 2026How to Read a Regression CoefficientRegressionStatisticsRYour slide says $368. A colleague who ran the same data says $422. Four ways a regression coefficient means less than it appears to.