Linear Regression

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi

Welcome to second half of the course: statistical learning! Coming attractions include various supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods. In this chapter, we first present a gentle introduction to statistical learning, followed by linear regression.

TipChapter Objectives

In this chapter, we will learn the following:

  1. Overview of statistical learning

  2. Types of learning

  3. Basic Mathematical formulation of learning

  4. Linear regression analysis