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Grokking Machine Learning
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Grokking Machine Learning

by Luis Serrano
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
15h 23m
English
Manning Publications
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3 Drawing a line close to our points: Linear regression

In this chapter

  • what is linear regression
  • fitting a line through a set of data points
  • coding the linear regression algorithm in Python
  • using Turi Create to build a linear regression model to predict housing prices in a real dataset
  • what is polynomial regression
  • fitting a more complex curve to nonlinear data
  • discussing examples of linear regression in the real world, such as medical applications and recommender systems

In this chapter, we will learn about linear regression. Linear regression is a powerful and widely used method to estimate values, such as the price of a house, the value ...

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