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Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284395
Pages 572 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Profile icon Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Practical Machine Learning with R 2. Data Exploration with Air Quality Datasets 3. Analyzing Time Series Data 4. R and Statistics 5. Understanding Regression Analysis 6. Survival Analysis 7. Classification 1 - Tree, Lazy, and Probabilistic 8. Classification 2 - Neural Network and SVM 9. Model Evaluation 10. Ensemble Learning 11. Clustering 12. Association Analysis and Sequence Mining 13. Dimension Reduction 14. Big Data Analysis (R and Hadoop)

Introduction


Regression is a supervised learning method, which is employed to model and analyze the relationship between a dependent (response) variable and one or more independent (predictor) variables. One can use regression to build a prediction model, which can first be used to find the best fitted model with minimum squared errors of the fitted values. The fitted model can then be further applied to data for continuous value predictions.

There are many types of regression. If there is only one predictor variable, and the relationship between the response variable and independent variable is linear, we can apply a linear model. However, if there is more than one predictor variable, a multiple linear regression method should be used. When the relationship is nonlinear, one can use a nonlinear model to model the relationship between the predictor and response variables.

In this chapter, we will introduce how to fit a linear model into data with the lm function. Next, for distribution in...

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