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Regression Analysis with Python

By : Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti
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Book Image

Regression Analysis with Python

4 (1)
By: Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti

Overview of this book

Regression is the process of learning relationships between inputs and continuous outputs from example data, which enables predictions for novel inputs. There are many kinds of regression algorithms, and the aim of this book is to explain which is the right one to use for each set of problems and how to prepare real-world data for it. With this book you will learn to define a simple regression problem and evaluate its performance. The book will help you understand how to properly parse a dataset, clean it, and create an output matrix optimally built for regression. You will begin with a simple regression algorithm to solve some data science problems and then progress to more complex algorithms. The book will enable you to use regression models to predict outcomes and take critical business decisions. Through the book, you will gain knowledge to use Python for building fast better linear models and to apply the results in Python or in any computer language you prefer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Regression Analysis with Python
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We've seen in this chapter how to build a binary classifier based on Linear Regression and the logistic function. It's fast, small, and very effective, and can be trained using an incremental technique based on SGD. Moreover, with very little effort (the One-vs-Rest approach), the Binary Logistic Regressor can become multiclass.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how to prepare data: to obtain the maximum from the supervised algorithm, the input dataset must be carefully cleaned and normalized. In fact, real world datasets can have missing data, errors, and outliers, and variables can be categorical and with different ranges of values. Fortunately, some popular algorithms deal with these problems, transforming the dataset in the best way possible for the machine learning algorithm.