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Machine Learning Quick Reference
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Machine Learning Quick Reference

by Rahul Kumar
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
294 pages
6h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Curve fitting

So far, we have learned about the learning curve and its significance. However, it only comes into the picture once we tried fitting a curve on the available data and features. But what does curve fitting mean? Let's try to understand this.

Curve fitting is nothing but establishing a relationship between a number of features and a target. It helps in finding out what kind of association the features have with respect to the target. 

Establishing a relationship (curve fitting) is nothing but coming up with a mathematical function that should be able to explain the behavioral pattern in such a way that it comes across as a best fit for the dataset.

There are multiple reasons behind why we do curve fitting:

  • To carry out system ...
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