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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R
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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

by Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Regression models

Sir Francis Galton invented the simple linear regression model near the end of the nineteenth century. The example used looked at how a parent's height influences the height of their child. This study used data and laid the basis of regression analysis. The correlation between the height of parents and children is well known, and using data on 928 pairs of height measurements, a linear regression was developed by Galton. In an equivalent form, however, the method might have been in informal use before Galton officially invented it. The simple linear regression model consists of a single input (independent) variable and the output is also a single output.

In this supervised learning method, the target variable/output/dependent ...

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ISBN: 9781788624145Supplemental Content