With the buzz around machine learning, perhaps it seems surprising that we are starting with such a standard statistical technique. In "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking", Jordan ...

In supervised learning, a set of input variables, such as blood metabolite or gene expression levels, are used to predict a quantitative response variable like hormone level or a qualitative one ...

Linear regression. Linear regression, also called least squares regression, is the simplest supervised machine learning algorithm for predicting numeric values. In some cases, ...