Supervised learning is the key concept behind such amazing things as voice recognition, email spam filtering, and face recognition in photos, and detecting credit card frauds. More formally, given a set, D, of learning examples described with features, X, the goal of supervised learning is to find a function that predicts a target variable, Y. The function, f ,that describes the relation between features X and class Y is called a model:
The general structure of supervised learning algorithms is defined by the following decisions (Hand et al., 2001):
- Define the task
- Decide on the machine learning algorithm, which introduces ...
