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In this article, we first provide an overview of machine learning and clarify its difference from statistical inference. Then, we review Scikit-learn, a machine learning package in the Python ...

Both Python 2 and Python 3 are supported, and Xlwings can make proper use of features from two common math and stats packages, NumPy and Panda.