Computer scientists use the term supervised learning to refer to a broad range of quantitative methods that predict and classify. In fact, you’ve already done supervised learning: the linear regression you did in Chapter 2 and the LPMs and logistic regression from Chapter 5 are all instances of supervised learning. By learning those methods, you’ve already become familiar with the basic ideas of supervised learning. This chapter introduces some advanced supervised learning methods and discusses the idea of supervised learning in general. We’re dwelling on this topic so much because it’s such a crucial component of data ...
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