Data Science/Theory & Notes/Regression

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Regression

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What it means

Regression teaches a model to guess a number from examples.

Why it matters

It gives you one reliable building block for doing Data Science work correctly and explaining it to someone else.

Tiny example

Imagine a science task as a small recipe. Regression is one named step in that recipe, with a clear input and result.

Remember this

Say it simply: “I use Regression to move from a question to a checked result.”