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Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning Perform data mining and machine learning efficiently using Python and Spark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280748
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Statistics and Probability Refresher, and Python Practice 3. Matplotlib and Advanced Probability Concepts 4. Predictive Models 5. Machine Learning with Python 6. Recommender Systems 7. More Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques 8. Dealing with Real-World Data 9. Apache Spark - Machine Learning on Big Data 10. Testing and Experimental Design

Multivariate regression and predicting car prices

What happens then, if we're trying to predict some value that is based on more than one other attribute? Let's say that the height of people not only depends on their weight, but also on their genetics or some other things that might factor into it. Well, that's where multivariate analysis comes in. You can actually build regression models that take more than one factor into account at once. It's actually pretty easy to do with Python.

Let's talk about multivariate regression, which is a little bit more complicated. The idea of multivariate regression is this: what if there's more than one factor that influences the thing you're trying to predict?

In our previous examples, we looked at linear regression. We talked about predicting people's heights based on their weight, for example. We assumed...

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