- 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
Author
Brett Lantz
Reviewers
Vijayakumar Nattamai Jawaharlal
Kent S. Johnson
Mzabalazo Z. Ngwenya
Anuj Saxena
Commissioning Editor
Ashwin Nair
Acquisition Editor
James Jones
Content Development Editor
Natasha D'Souza
Technical Editor
Rahul C. Shah
Copy Editors
Akshata Lobo
Swati Priya
Project Coordinator
Vijay Kushlani
Proofreader
Safis Editing
Indexer
Monica Ajmera Mehta
Production Coordinator
Arvindkumar Gupta
Cover Work
Arvindkumar Gupta
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