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12 - Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2023

William W. Hsieh
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Under supervised learning, when the output variable is discrete or categorical instead of continuous, one has a classification problem instead of a regression problem. Several classification methods are covered: linear discriminant analysis, logistic regression, naive Bayes classifier, K-nearest neighbours, extreme learning machine classifier and multi-layer perceptron classifier. In classification, the cross-entropy objective function is often used in place of the mean squared error function.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • William W. Hsieh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Introduction to Environmental Data Science
  • Online publication: 23 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107588493.013
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  • William W. Hsieh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Introduction to Environmental Data Science
  • Online publication: 23 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107588493.013
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  • Classification
  • William W. Hsieh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Introduction to Environmental Data Science
  • Online publication: 23 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107588493.013
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