The goal of a machine learning regression problem is to predict a single numeric value. Poisson regression is a specific technique that can be used when the problem data is approximately Poisson ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls ...

a linear function of explanatory variables. For this example, the function is a link function that relates the mean to the linear function of explanatory variables. For this example, the link function ...