Month: May 2022

cross validation

A Complete Introduction to Cross Validation in Machine Learning

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A Complete Introduction to Cross Validation in Machine Learning What is Cross Validation? A natural question to ask, when building any predictive model, is how good are the predictions? Having a clear, quantitative measure for the expected model performance, is a key element to any machine learning project.   Cross validation is a family of …

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Understanding the Adaboost Regression Algorithm

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Understanding the Adaboost Regression Algorithm Motivation: What is a Adaboost Regressor? In this post, we will describe the Adaboost regression algorithm. We will start with the basic assumptions and mathematical foundations of this algorithm, and work straight through to an implementation in Python from scratch. Adaboost stands for “Adaptive Boosting”, and this was the first boosting technique …

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