July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
486 pages
13h 49m
English
There are many ways to calculate the error for ML algorithms, but in this chapter we will be using one of the most popular techniques: sum of squared distance error. Now we are going straight into details.
What does this error function do for us? Recall our goal: we want to get the line of best fit for our dataset. Refer to Figure 9.19, which is the equation of line slope. Here, m is the slope of line, b is the y intercept, x and y are the data points--in our case, x is the numbers of hours the student studies and y is the test score. Refer to Figure 9.19:

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