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Mastering .NET Machine Learning
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To this point in the book, we have used several different models to answer our questions: linear regression, logistic regression, and kNN to name a few. Although different in their methodology, they share a common thread; we told the computer the answer (called the dependent or y variable) and then provided a series of features (called independent or x variables) that can be associated with that answer. Consider the following diagram for example:

We then presented the computer with some combination of independent variables that it had not seen before and asked it to guess the answer:

We then compared to the known answers via the test and, if it did a good job guessing, we would use the model in production:

This methodology of telling the computer the answer ahead of time is called supervised learning. The term supervised is used because we provide the computer an answer explicitly and then tell it which model to use.
There is another class of models that do not provide...
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