Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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When I first started making StatQuest videos it never dawned on me that people would try to re-do my math on their own. I was also new to explaining things and just assumed that everyone already knew that, in statistics and machine learning, when you use the log, you use base 'e'. Big rookie mistake! Ever since then, people have been re-doing my math using log base 10 and posting comments about how their math is not working out. Well, this video attempts to explain the discrepancy.

Music and Producer: Sven Pontus Simonsson
Ukulele and Vocals: Josh Starmer
Mastered by Richard Lindvall @ AboutSound

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