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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers
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Machine Learning: End-to-End guide for Java developers

by Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Boštjan Kaluža, Dr. Uday Kamath, Krishna Choppella
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Supervised learning

Supervised learning is the key concept behind amazing things such as voice recognition, e-mail spam filtering, face recognition in photos, and detecting credit card frauds. More formally, given a set D of learning examples described with features, X, the goal of supervised learning is to find a function that predicts a target variable, Y. The function f that describes the relation between features X and class Y is called a model:

Supervised learning

The general structure of supervised learning algorithms is defined by the following decisions (Hand et al., 2001):

  1. Define the task.
  2. Decide on the machine learning algorithm, which introduces specific inductive ...
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