Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition

Introduction

Regression is a supervised learning method, which is employed to model and analyze the relationship between a dependent (response) variable and one or more independent (predictor) variables. One can use regression to build a prediction model, which can first be used to find the best fitted model with minimum squared errors of the fitted values. The fitted model can then be further applied to data for continuous value predictions.

There are many types of regression. If there is only one predictor variable, and the relationship between the response variable and independent variable is linear, we can apply a linear model. However, if there is more than one predictor variable, a multiple linear regression method should be used. When ...