We've learned from previous chapters that regression problems involve predicting a numerical output. The simplest but most common type of regression is linear regression. In this chapter, we'll explore why linear regression is so commonly used, its limitations, and extensions, and then touch on polynomial regression, which you may consider when a linear relationship isn't a best fit for your circumstances.
Mastering Predictive Analytics with R - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
R offers a free and open source environment that is perfect for both learning and deploying predictive modeling solutions. With its constantly growing community and plethora of packages, R offers the functionality to deal with a truly vast array of problems.
The book begins with a dedicated chapter on the language of models and the predictive modeling process. You will understand the learning curve and the process of tidying data. Each subsequent chapter tackles a particular type of model, such as neural networks, and focuses on the three important questions of how the model works, how to use R to train it, and how to measure and assess its performance using real-world datasets. How do you train models that can handle really large datasets? This book will also show you just that. Finally, you will tackle the really important topic of deep learning by implementing applications on word embedding and recurrent neural networks.
By the end of this book, you will have explored and tested the most popular modeling techniques in use on real- world datasets and mastered a diverse range of techniques in predictive analytics using R.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Predictive Analytics with R Second Edition
Credits
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Preface
Free Chapter
Gearing Up for Predictive Modeling
Tidying Data and Measuring Performance
Linear Regression
Generalized Linear Models
Neural Networks
Support Vector Machines
Tree-Based Methods
Dimensionality Reduction
Ensemble Methods
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Topic Modeling
Recommendation Systems
Scaling Up
Index
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