Glossary of Terms
- activation function
- in ANN, the activation function of a node defines the output of that node given an input or set of inputs.
- AdaBoost
- an ensemble learning method that uses an iterative approach to learn from the mistakes of weak classifiers and turn them into strong ones.
- agglomerative hierarchical clustering
- a bottom-up approach in which each observation starts as its own cluster, and pairs of clusters are merged as one moves up the hierarchy.
- analysis of variance (ANOVA)
- an analysis tool used in statistics that splits an observed aggregate variability found inside a dataset into two parts: systematic factors and random factors.
- Apache Spark
- a multilanguage engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning ...
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