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EECS 738 - Machine learning, Semester project

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Semester project

EECS 738 - Machine learning

Team members: Jan Polzer, Ryan Duckworth, Nishil Parmar, Rohan Choudhari, Kunal Karnik

Graduate admission prediction

Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/mohansacharya/graduate-admissions/version/2

A Machine Learning project to help students get to know their chance of getting admitted to a university

Models used:

Random Forest Regressor
XGBoost
Neural Network
Multivariate Linear Regression
Ridge Regression
Negative Binomial Distribution

Notebooks:

Models and algorithms
Model comparison
Minimum GRE scores

References:

https://towardsdatascience.com/implementation-of-multi-variate-linear-regression-in-python-using-gradient-descent-optimization-b02f386425b9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGBoost

https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/tree/master/demo#machine-learning-challenge-winning-solutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting

http://datascience.la/xgboost-workshop-and-meetup-talk-with-tianqi-chen/

https://machinelearningmastery.com/gentle-introduction-xgboost-applied-machine-learning/

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/09/an-end-to-end-guide-to-understand-the-math-behind-xgboost/

https://www.johndcook.com/negative_binomial.pdf