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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

About the Reviewers

Giuliano Janson's professional experiences have centered on advanced analytics and applied machine learning in healthcare. His work is primarily focused on extracting information from large, dirty, and noisy data utilizing machine learning, stats, Monte Carlo simulation, and data visualization to identify business opportunities and help leadership make data-driven decisions through actionable analytics.

Zacharias Voulgaris is a data scientist and technical author specializing in data science books. He has an engineering and management background, with post-graduate studies in information systems and machine learning. Zacharias has worked as a research fellow in Georgia Tech, investigating and applying machine learning technologies to real-world problems, as an SEO manager in an e-marketing company in Europe, as a program manager in Microsoft, and as a data scientist in US Bank and G2 Web Services.

Dr. Voulgaris has also authored technical books, the most notable of which is Data Scientist: The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Data Scientist, Technics Publications, and is currently working on Julia for Data Science, Manning Publications. He has also written a number of data science-related articles on blogs and participates in various data science/machine learning meet-up groups. Finally, he has provided technical editorial aid in the book Python Data Science Essentials, Packt Publishing, by the same authors as this book.