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Statistics for Machine Learning

By : Pratap Dangeti
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Statistics for Machine Learning

By: Pratap Dangeti

Overview of this book

Complex statistics in machine learning worry a lot of developers. Knowing statistics helps you build strong machine learning models that are optimized for a given problem statement. This book will teach you all it takes to perform the complex statistical computations that are required for machine learning. You will gain information on the statistics behind supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and more. You will see real-world examples that discuss the statistical side of machine learning and familiarize yourself with it. You will come across programs for performing tasks such as modeling, parameter fitting, regression, classification, density collection, working with vectors, matrices, and more. By the end of the book, you will have mastered the statistics required for machine learning and will be able to apply your new skills to any sort of industry problem.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 8. Unsupervised Learning

The goal of unsupervised learning is to discover the hidden patterns or structures of the data in which no target variable exists to perform either classification or regression methods. Unsupervised learning methods are often more challenging, as the outcomes are subjective and there is no simple goal for the analysis, such as predicting the class or continuous variable. These methods are performed as part of exploratory data analysis. On top of that, it can be hard to assess the results obtained from unsupervised learning methods, since there is no universally accepted mechanism for performing the validation of results.

Nonetheless, unsupervised learning methods have growing importance in various fields as a trending topic nowadays, and many researchers are actively working on them at the moment to explore this new horizon. A few good applications are:

  • Genomics: Unsupervised learning applied to understanding genomic-wide biological insights from DNA to better...