Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
A type of machine learning model in which both of the following are true:
The model is a linear model.
The prediction is a floating-point value. (This is the regression part of linear regression.)
Contrast linear regression with logistic regression. Also, contrast regression with classification.
See Linear regression in Machine Learning Crash Course for more information.
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A real estate team uses linear regression on square footage and location features to produce a transparent price estimate.
A retail analytics team uses linear regression on simple drivers as a baseline that any business reviewer can interpret.
An economics research team uses linear regression to estimate elasticities across product categories from historical pricing data.
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