Mathematics Applied to Engineering and Management

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Supervised Machine Learning: Application Example Using Random Forest in R

Bharatendra Rai

CONTENTS

2.1      Introduction: What Is Machine Learning?

2.2      Machine Learning Using Random Forest

2.3      Feature Selection from Exploratory Variables in the Housing Data

2.4      Random Forest Prediction Models

2.5      Discussion of the Results

2.6      Conclusions

References

2.1      Introduction: What Is Machine Learning?

Machine learning has been gaining popularity along with recent interest in involving data science and big data among businesses and academics. Figure 2.1 shows that for last several years the popularity for searching the term “machine learning” is steadily going up.

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