Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Practical Machine Learning Cookbook

You're reading from   Practical Machine Learning Cookbook Supervised and unsupervised machine learning simplified

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280511
Length 570 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Atul Tripathi Atul Tripathi
Author Profile Icon Atul Tripathi
Atul Tripathi
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Classification 3. Clustering 4. Model Selection and Regularization 5. Nonlinearity 6. Supervised Learning 7. Unsupervised Learning 8. Reinforcement Learning 9. Structured Prediction 10. Neural Networks 11. Deep Learning 12. Case Study - Exploring World Bank Data 13. Case Study - Pricing Reinsurance Contracts 14. Case Study - Forecast of Electricity Consumption

Discriminant function analysis - geological measurements on brines from wells


Let us assume that a study of ancient artifacts that have been collected from mines needs to be carried out. Rock samples have been collected from the mines. On the collected rock samples geochemical measurements have been carried out. A similar study has been carried out on the collected artifacts. In order to separate the samples into the mine from which they were excavated, DFA can be used as a function. The function can then be applied to the artifacts to predict which mine was the source of each artifact.

Getting ready

In order to perform discriminant function analysis we shall be using a dataset collected from mines.

Step 1 - collecting and describing data

The dataset on data analysis in geology titled BRINE shall be used. This can be obtained from http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Mathgeo/Books/Stat/ASCII/BRINE.TXT . The dataset is in a standard form, with rows corresponding to samples and columns corresponding to variables...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime