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Mastering Machine Learning with R

You're reading from   Mastering Machine Learning with R Master machine learning techniques with R to deliver insights for complex projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783984527
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cory Lesmeister Cory Lesmeister
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Process for Success 2. Linear Regression – The Blocking and Tackling of Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 3. Logistic Regression and Discriminant Analysis 4. Advanced Feature Selection in Linear Models 5. More Classification Techniques – K-Nearest Neighbors and Support Vector Machines 6. Classification and Regression Trees 7. Neural Networks 8. Cluster Analysis 9. Principal Components Analysis 10. Market Basket Analysis and Recommendation Engines 11. Time Series and Causality 12. Text Mining A. R Fundamentals Index

Chapter 11. Time Series and Causality

 

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

 
 --Laurence J. Peter

A univariate time series is where the measurements are collected over a standard measure of time, which could be by the minute, hour, day, week, or month. What makes the time series problematic over the other data collected is that the order of the observations probably matters. This dependency of order can cause the standard analysis methods to produce an unnecessarily high bias or variance.

It seems that there is a paucity of literature on machine learning and time series data. This is unfortunate as so much of the real-world data involves a time component. Furthermore, time series analysis can be quite complicated and tricky. I would say that if you haven't seen a time series analysis done incorrectly, you haven't been looking close enough.

Another aspect involving time...

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