Week 15 - Machine Learning - (Supervised Learning) Applying Linear Regression for automobile prices from Principles of M.L. Python by Microsoft Learning

Liaw Bei Le Β· July 1, 2021

Learning   Python   Machine Learning   References
  • Linear regression using scikit-learn
  • Use categorical data
  • Apply transformations to features and labels to improve model performance
  • Compare regression models to improve model performance
  • Prepare the model matrix
    • Create dummy variables from categorical features
    • Concatenate the numeric features
  • Data preparation
    • Split the dataset
      • create independently sampled training dataset and test data set
      • .train_test_split( ) to perform Bernoulli sampling
    • Scale numeric features
      • Z-Score normalization
        • .StandardScaler( ) then .transform( )
  • Construct the regression model
    • Instantiate and fit the model
      • .LinearRegression( ) & .fit( )
      • print the intercept term and model coefficients
  • Evaluate model performance
    • Plot the predicted values computed from the training features - The predict method is applied to the model with the training data
    • Using the test dataset
    • Choose & compute performance metric
      • Mean squared error or MSE
      • Root mean squred error or RMSE
      • Mean absolute error or MAE
      • Median absolute error
      • R squared or 𝑅2 , also known as the coefficient of determination
      • Adjusted R squared
    • Residuals (errors) of the model should be Normally distributed
      • plot a kernel density plot and histogram of the residuals of the regression model
      • Quantile-Quantile Normal plot, or Q-Q Normal plot
        • If the residuals have a distribution which is approximately Normal, points will nearly fall along the straight line
      • Residual plot

These are my notes taken from Microsoft Learning’s Principles of Machine Learning in Python - Module 4.

What I learnt:

Applying Linear Regression

Goal: To construct a linear regression model to predict the price of automobiles from their characteristics

I have reviewed and went through Applying Linear Regression for automobile prices in this link.

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