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Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python Master the complete predictive analytics process, from problem definition to model deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138719
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alvaro Fuentes Alvaro Fuentes
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Preface 1. The Predictive Analytics Process FREE CHAPTER 2. Problem Understanding and Data Preparation 3. Dataset Understanding – Exploratory Data Analysis 4. Predicting Numerical Values with Machine Learning 5. Predicting Categories with Machine Learning 6. Introducing Neural Nets for Predictive Analytics 7. Model Evaluation 8. Model Tuning and Improving Performance 9. Implementing a Model with Dash 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

MLR

In scikit-learn, ML models are implemented in classes known as estimators, which include any object that learns from data, mainly models or transformers. All estimators have a fit method, which is used with a dataset to train the estimator like this: estimator.fit(data).

It is important to note that the estimator has two kinds of parameters:

  • Estimator parameters: All the parameters of an estimator can be set when it is instantiated or by modifying the corresponding attribute. Some of these estimator parameters correspond to the ML model hyperparameters. We will talk about model hyperparameters more later.
  • Estimated parameters: When data is fitted with an estimator, parameters are estimated from the data at hand. All the estimated parameters are attributes of the estimator object, ending with an underscore.

Since scikit-learn has a very consistent API using estimators, it...

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