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Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By : Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N
Book Image

Machine Learning with Scala Quick Start Guide

By: Md. Rezaul Karim, Ajay Kumar N

Overview of this book

Scala is a highly scalable integration of object-oriented nature and functional programming concepts that make it easy to build scalable and complex big data applications. This book is a handy guide for machine learning developers and data scientists who want to develop and train effective machine learning models in Scala. The book starts with an introduction to machine learning, while covering deep learning and machine learning basics. It then explains how to use Scala-based ML libraries to solve classification and regression problems using linear regression, generalized linear regression, logistic regression, support vector machine, and Naïve Bayes algorithms. It also covers tree-based ensemble techniques for solving both classification and regression problems. Moving ahead, it covers unsupervised learning techniques, such as dimensionality reduction, clustering, and recommender systems. Finally, it provides a brief overview of deep learning using a real-life example in Scala.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Regression analysis algorithms

There are numerous algorithms proposed and available, which can be used for the regression analysis. For example, LR tries to find relationships and dependencies between variables. It models the relationship between a continuous dependent variable y (that is, a label or target) and one or more independent variables, x, using a linear function. Examples of regression algorithms include the following:

  • Linear regression (LR)
  • Generalized linear regression (GLR)
  • Survival regression (SR)
  • Isotonic regression (IR)
  • Decision tree regressor (DTR)
  • Random forest regression (RFR)
  • Gradient boosted trees regression (GBTR)

We start by explaining regression with the simplest LR algorithm, which models the relationship between a dependent variable, y, which involves a linear combination of interdependent variables, x:

In the preceding equation letters, β0...