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About This Book
AN INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING THAT INCLUDES THE FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS PROSE Award Finalist 2019
Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
Machine Learning: a Concise Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts, approaches, and applications of machine learning. The authorâan expert in the fieldâpresents fundamental ideas, terminology, and techniques for solving applied problems in classification, regression, clustering, density estimation, and dimension reduction. The design principles behind the techniques are emphasized, including the bias-variance trade-off and its influence on the design of ensemble methods. Understanding these principles leads to more flexible and successful applications. Machine Learning: a Concise Introduction also includes methods for optimization, risk estimation, and model selectionâ essential elements of most applied projects. This important resource:
- Illustrates many classification methods with a single, running example, highlighting similarities and differences between methods
- Presents R source code which shows how to apply and interpret many of the techniques covered
- Includes many thoughtful exercises as an integral part of the text, with an appendix of selected solutions
- Contains useful information for effectively communicating with clients
A volume in the popular Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, Machine Learning: a Concise Introduction offers the practical information needed for an understanding of the methods and application of machine learning.
STEVEN W. KNOX holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has over twenty years' experience in using Machine Learning, Statistics, and Mathematics to solve real-world problems. He currently serves as Technical Director of Mathematics Research and Senior Advocate for Data Science at the National Security Agency.
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IntroductionâExamples from Real Life
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The Problem of Learning
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
The Problem of Learning. There are a known setand an unknown function f on. Given data, construct a good approximationof f. This is called learning f.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Preface
- OrganizationâHow to Use This Book
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Chapter 1: IntroductionâExamples from Real Life
- Chapter 2: The Problem of Learning
- Chapter 3: Regression
- Chapter 4: Survey of Classification Techniques
- Chapter 5: BiasâVariance Trade-off
- Chapter 6: Combining Classifiers
- Chapter 7: Risk Estimation and Model Selection
- Chapter 8: Consistency
- Chapter 9: Clustering
- Chapter 10: Optimization
- Chapter 11: High-Dimensional Data
- Chapter 12: Communication with Clients
- Chapter 13: Current Challenges in Machine Learning
- Chapter 14: R Source Code
- Appendix A: List of Symbols
- Appendix B: Solutions to Selected Exercises
- Appendix C: Converting Between Normal Parameters and Level-Curve Ellipsoids
- Appendix D: Training Data and Fitted Parameters
- References
- Index
- EULA