Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Second Edition

CHAPTER 6

Introduction to Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms

This chapter will serve as a reference for some of the most commonly used algorithms in Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. We will provide a brief introduction to algorithms such as linear regression, k-means for clustering, decision trees, boosted decision trees, neural networks, support vector machines, and Bayes point machines.

This chapter will provide a good foundation and reference material for some of the algorithms you will encounter in the rest of the book. We group these algorithms into the following categories:

• Regression
• Classification
• Clustering

Regression Algorithms ...