“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...

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The goal of a machine learning regression problem is to predict a single numeric value. There are roughly a dozen different regression techniques such as basic linear regression, k-nearest neighbors ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of k-nearest neighbors regression to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning ...