- Machine Learning with R Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Machine Learning with R Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introducing Machine Learning
- 2. Managing and Understanding Data
- R data structures
- Managing data with R
- Exploring and understanding data
- Exploring the structure of data
- Exploring numeric variables
- Measuring the central tendency – mean and median
- Measuring spread – quartiles and the five-number summary
- Visualizing numeric variables – boxplots
- Visualizing numeric variables – histograms
- Understanding numeric data – uniform and normal distributions
- Measuring spread – variance and standard deviation
- Exploring categorical variables
- Exploring relationships between variables
- Summary
- 3. Lazy Learning – Classification Using Nearest Neighbors
- 4. Probabilistic Learning – Classification Using Naive Bayes
- 5. Divide and Conquer – Classification Using Decision Trees and Rules
- Understanding decision trees
- Example – identifying risky bank loans using C5.0 decision trees
- Understanding classification rules
- Example – identifying poisonous mushrooms with rule learners
- Summary
- 6. Forecasting Numeric Data – Regression Methods
- Understanding regression
- Example – predicting medical expenses using linear regression
- Understanding regression trees and model trees
- Example – estimating the quality of wines with regression trees and model trees
- Summary
- 7. Black Box Methods – Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines
- 8. Finding Patterns – Market Basket Analysis Using Association Rules
- 9. Finding Groups of Data – Clustering with k-means
- 10. Evaluating Model Performance
- 11. Improving Model Performance
- 12. Specialized Machine Learning Topics
- Index
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