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MATLAB for Machine Learning

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788398435
Pages 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Giuseppe Ciaburro Giuseppe Ciaburro
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Pavan Kumar Kolluru Pavan Kumar Kolluru
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Getting Started with MATLAB Machine Learning 2. Importing and Organizing Data in MATLAB 3. From Data to Knowledge Discovery 4. Finding Relationships between Variables - Regression Techniques 5. Pattern Recognition through Classification Algorithms 6. Identifying Groups of Data Using Clustering Methods 7. Simulation of Human Thinking - Artificial Neural Networks 8. Improving the Performance of the Machine Learning Model - Dimensionality Reduction 9. Machine Learning in Practice

Data fitting with neural networks


Data fitting is the process of building a curve or a mathematical function that has the best match with a set of previously collected points. Curve fitting can relate to both interpolations, where exact data points are required, or smoothing, where a flat function that approximates the data is built. We are talking about curves fitting in a regression analysis, which is most concerned with statistical inference problems, as well as the uncertainty that a curve coincides with observed data that has random errors. The approximate curves obtained from the data fitting can be used to help display data, to predict the values of a function where no data is available, and to summarize the relationship between two or more variables.

Figure 7.18: Linear interpolation of collected data

We have seen some examples of curve fitting in the regression chapter. On that occasion, we could see that the mathematical formulas that allow us to predict the trend of a particular...

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