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Mastering Predictive Analytics with scikit-learn and TensorFlow

You're reading from   Mastering Predictive Analytics with scikit-learn and TensorFlow Implement machine learning techniques to build advanced predictive models using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617740
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reducible and irreducible error

Before moving on, there are two really important concepts to be covered for predictive analytics. Errors can be divided into the following two types:

  • Reducible errors: These errors can be reduced by making certain improvements to the model
  • Irreducible errors: These errors cannot be reduced at all

Let's assume that, in machine learning, there is a relationship between features and target that is represented with a function, as shown in the following screenshot:

Let’s assume that the target (y) is the underlying supposition of machine learning, and the relationship between the features and the target is given by a function. Since, in most cases we consider that there is some randomness in the relationship between features and target, we add a noise term here, which will always be present in reality. This is the underlying supposition...

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