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This. I believe technically just linear regression could be considered "machine learning".
by penagwin 6y ago
This. I believe technically just linear regression could be considered "machine learning".
- misnome 6y agoI've seen people at bio conferences actively calling linear regression machine learning.
- diab0lic 6y agoThis is likely because linear regression meets most widely accepted definitions of machine learning. [0][1] It is simple and very effective when learning in linear space. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html
- b3kart 6y agoSorry, I don’t get it. Are you saying fitting a linear regression model to data and making predictions somehow isn’t machine learning? I am confused.