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Mastering Machine Learning with R, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Machine Learning with R, Second Edition Advanced prediction, algorithms, and learning methods with R 3.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287471
Length 420 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Cory Lesmeister Cory Lesmeister
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Process for Success FREE CHAPTER 2. Linear Regression - The Blocking and Tackling of Machine Learning 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 and Deep Learning 8. Cluster Analysis 9. Principal Components Analysis 10. Market Basket Analysis, Recommendation Engines, and Sequential Analysis 11. Creating Ensembles and Multiclass Classification 12. Time Series and Causality 13. Text Mining 14. R on the Cloud 15. R Fundamentals 16. Sources

Summary

In this chapter, the goal was to discuss how important the element of time is in the field of machine learning and analytics, to identify the common traps when analyzing the time series, and demonstrate the techniques and methods to work around these traps. We explored both the univariate and bivariate time series analyses for global temperature anomalies and human carbon dioxide emissions. Additionally, we looked at Granger causality to determine whether we can say, statistically speaking, that atmospheric CO2 levels cause surface temperature anomalies. We discovered that the p-values are higher than 0.05 but less than 0.10 for Granger causality from CO2 to temperature. It does show that Granger causality is an effective tool in investigating causality in machine learning problems. In the next chapter, we will shift gears and take a look at how to apply learning methods to textual data.

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