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:
The general structure of supervised learning algorithms is defined by the following decisions (Hand et al., 2001):
- Define the task.
- Decide on the machine learning algorithm, which introduces specific inductive ...
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