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Statistics for Machine Learning

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295758
Pages 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Pratap Dangeti Pratap Dangeti
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
Journey from Statistics to Machine Learning Parallelism of Statistics and Machine Learning Logistic Regression Versus Random Forest Tree-Based Machine Learning Models K-Nearest Neighbors and Naive Bayes Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks Recommendation Engines Unsupervised Learning Reinforcement Learning

Comparison between regression and machine learning models


Linear regression and machine learning models both try to solve the same problem in different ways. In the following simple example of a two-variable equation fitting the best possible plane, regression models try to fit the best possible hyperplane by minimizing the errors between the hyperplane and actual observations. However, in machine learning, the same problem has been converted into an optimization problem in which errors are modeled in squared form to minimize errors by altering the weights.

In statistical modeling, samples are drawn from the population and the model will be fitted on sampled data. However, in machine learning, even small numbers such as 30 observations would be good enough to update the weights at the end of each iteration; in a few cases, such as online learning, the model will be updated with even one observation:

Machine learning models can be effectively parallelized and made to work on multiple machines...

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