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Statistics for Machine Learning

You're reading from   Statistics for Machine Learning Techniques for exploring supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning models with Python and R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295758
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pratap Dangeti Pratap Dangeti
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Preface 1. Journey from Statistics to Machine Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Parallelism of Statistics and Machine Learning 3. Logistic Regression Versus Random Forest 4. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models 5. K-Nearest Neighbors and Naive Bayes 6. Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks 7. Recommendation Engines 8. Unsupervised Learning 9. Reinforcement Learning

Tree-Based Machine Learning Models

he goal of tree-based methods is to segment the feature space into a number of simple rectangular regions, to subsequently make a prediction for a given observation based on either mean or mode (mean for regression and mode for classification, to be precise) of the training observations in the region to which it belongs. Unlike most other classifiers, models produced by decision trees are easy to interpret. In this chapter, we will be covering the following decision tree-based models on HR data examples for predicting whether a given employee will leave the organization in the near future or not. In this chapter, we will learn the following topics:

  • Decision trees - simple model and model with class weight tuning
  • Bagging (bootstrap aggregation)
  • Random Ffrest - basic random forest and application of grid search on hypyerparameter tuning
  • Boosting...
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