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Advanced R Statistical Programming and Data Models: Analysis, Machine Learning, and Visualization
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Advanced R Statistical Programming and Data Models: Analysis, Machine Learning, and Visualization

by Matt Wiley, Joshua F. Wiley
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
649 pages
14h 32m
English
Apress
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© Matt Wiley and Joshua F. Wiley 2019
Matt Wiley and Joshua F. WileyAdvanced R Statistical Programming and Data Modelshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2872-2_8

8. ML: Supervised

Matt Wiley1  and Joshua F. Wiley1
(1)
Columbia City, IN, USA
 

Machine learning (ML) and classification.

In the prior chapter, data was fed into an algorithm which then attempted to group common types of data. While we occasionally kept labels in order to gain a sense of how the algorithms performed, in real life, unsupervised machine learning is a form of exploratory analysis. Sometimes called pre-processing, it is often an initial phase that includes scaling and centering of data.

Often, the objective is not simply grouping, but the ability to use current data to predict the ...

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