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Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn - Second Edition

By : Gavin Hackeling
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Mastering Machine Learning with scikit-learn - Second Edition

By: Gavin Hackeling

Overview of this book

Machine learning is the buzzword bringing computer science and statistics together to build smart and efficient models. Using powerful algorithms and techniques offered by machine learning you can automate any analytical model. This book examines a variety of machine learning models including popular machine learning algorithms such as k-nearest neighbors, logistic regression, naive Bayes, k-means, decision trees, and artificial neural networks. It discusses data preprocessing, hyperparameter optimization, and ensemble methods. You will build systems that classify documents, recognize images, detect ads, and more. You will learn to use scikit-learn’s API to extract features from categorical variables, text and images; evaluate model performance, and develop an intuition for how to improve your model’s performance. By the end of this book, you will master all required concepts of scikit-learn to build efficient models at work to carry out advanced tasks with the practical approach.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
9
From Decision Trees to Random Forests and Other Ensemble Methods
Index

Chapter 5. From Simple Linear Regression to Multiple Linear Regression

In Chapter 2, Simple Linear Regression we used simple linear regression to model the relationship between a single explanatory variable and a continuous response variable; we used the diameter of a pizza to predict its price. In Chapter 3, Classification and Regression with K-Nearest Neighbors we introduced KNN and trained classifiers and regressors that used more than one explanatory variable to make predictions. In this chapter, we will discuss a multiple linear regression, a generalization of simple linear regression that regresses a continuous response variable onto multiple features. We will first analytically solve the values of the parameters that minimize the RSS cost function. We will then introduce a powerful learning algorithm that can estimate the values of the parameters that minimize a variety of cost functions, called gradient descent. We will discuss polynomial regression, another special case of multiple...