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Supervised Learning

Machine Learning · Level 2 of 5

Supervised Learning

Learning a mapping from inputs to provided target outputs.

The training examples contain answers used to measure prediction error.

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A model learns house prices from past sales.

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Supervised Learning. Learning a mapping from inputs to provided target outputs. The training examples contain answers used to measure prediction error. For example: A model learns house prices from past sales.

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