{"id":95,"date":"2017-05-31T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/?p=95"},"modified":"2017-05-31T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:56:59","slug":"classification-vs-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/2017\/05\/31\/classification-vs-regression\/","title":{"rendered":"Classification vs. Regression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two slightly similar concepts in supervised machine learning are Supervised classification, and regression.<br \/>\nWith supervised classification you will get a discrete output (a label or boolean value) and in regression your output is continuous (i.e. a number).<br \/>\nThe thing you are trying to find in the different cases is a decision boundary when using classification and a best fit line in regression. You evalueate the former with it&#8217;s accuracy value, and the latter using the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Residual_sum_of_squares\">sum of squared errors<\/a>&#8221; or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coefficient_of_determination\"><em>r<sup>2<\/sup><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two slightly similar concepts in supervised machine learning are Supervised classification, and regression. With supervised classification you will get a discrete output (a label or boolean value) and in regression your output is continuous (i.e. a number). The thing you are trying to find in the different cases is a decision boundary when using classification &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/2017\/05\/31\/classification-vs-regression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classification vs. Regression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regression","category-shallow-machine-learning","category-supervised-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bskog.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}