May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
664 pages
15h 41m
English
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Response variable
Dependent variables or target or y-values are all interchangeably used by practitioners as alternatives for the term response variable. This is the variable the model predicts as output based on the independent variables that are provided as input to the model.
In the house rent prediction use case, the rent predicted is the response variable.