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The document discusses linear regression, an algorithm that is well-known in both statistics and machine learning. It explains that linear regression can be used to model the relationship between input and output variables and make predictions, though it was originally developed in statistics. The document provides an overview of linear regression, how it works, and how to prepare data for building linear regression models.

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Linear Regression For Machine Learning

The document discusses linear regression, an algorithm that is well-known in both statistics and machine learning. It explains that linear regression can be used to model the relationship between input and output variables and make predictions, though it was originally developed in statistics. The document provides an overview of linear regression, how it works, and how to prepare data for building linear regression models.

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Linear regression is perhaps one of the most well known and well understood

algorithms in statistics and machine learning.

In this post you will discover the linear regression algorithm, how it works and
how you can best use it in on your machine learning projects. In this post you will
learn:

Why linear regression belongs to both statistics and machine learning.


The many names by which linear regression is known.
The representation and learning algorithms used to create a linear regression
model.
How to best prepare your data when modeling using linear regression.
You do not need to know any statistics or linear algebra to understand linear
regression. This is a gentle high-level introduction to the technique to give you
enough background to be able to use it effectively on your own problems.

Linear Regression for Machine Learning


by Jason Brownlee on March 25, 2016 in Machine Learning Algorithms
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Linear regression is perhaps one of the most well known and well understood
algorithms in statistics and machine learning.

In this post you will discover the linear regression algorithm, how it works and
how you can best use it in on your machine learning projects. In this post you will
learn:

Why linear regression belongs to both statistics and machine learning.


The many names by which linear regression is known.
The representation and learning algorithms used to create a linear regression
model.
How to best prepare your data when modeling using linear regression.
You do not need to know any statistics or linear algebra to understand linear
regression. This is a gentle high-level introduction to the technique to give you
enough background to be able to use it effectively on your own problems.

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Linear Regression for Machine Learning


Linear Regression for Machine Learning
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Isn’t Linear Regression from Statistics?


Before we dive into the details of linear regression, you may be asking yourself
why we are looking at this algorithm.

Isn’t it a technique from statistics?

Machine learning, more specifically the field of predictive modeling is primarily


concerned with minimizing the error of a model or making the most accurate
predictions possible, at the expense of explainability. In applied machine learning
we will borrow, reuse and steal algorithms from many different fields, including
statistics and use them towards these ends.
As such, linear regression was developed in the field of statistics and is studied
as a model for understanding the relationship between input and output numerical
variables, but has been borrowed by machine learning. It is both a statistical
algorithm and a machine learning algorithm.

Next, let’s review some of the common names used to refer to a linear regression
model.

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