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Learning Bayesian Models with R

Learning Bayesian Models with R

By : Hari Manassery Koduvely
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Learning Bayesian Models with R

Learning Bayesian Models with R

3.4 (7)
By: Hari Manassery Koduvely

Overview of this book

Bayesian Inference provides a unified framework to deal with all sorts of uncertainties when learning patterns form data using machine learning models and use it for predicting future observations. However, learning and implementing Bayesian models is not easy for data science practitioners due to the level of mathematical treatment involved. Also, applying Bayesian methods to real-world problems requires high computational resources. With the recent advances in computation and several open sources packages available in R, Bayesian modeling has become more feasible to use for practical applications today. Therefore, it would be advantageous for all data scientists and engineers to understand Bayesian methods and apply them in their projects to achieve better results. Learning Bayesian Models with R starts by giving you a comprehensive coverage of the Bayesian Machine Learning models and the R packages that implement them. It begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of probability theory and R programming for those who are new to the subject. Then the book covers some of the important machine learning methods, both supervised and unsupervised learning, implemented using Bayesian Inference and R. Every chapter begins with a theoretical description of the method explained in a very simple manner. Then, relevant R packages are discussed and some illustrations using data sets from the UCI Machine Learning repository are given. Each chapter ends with some simple exercises for you to get hands-on experience of the concepts and R packages discussed in the chapter. The last chapters are devoted to the latest development in the field, specifically Deep Learning, which uses a class of Neural Network models that are currently at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence. The book concludes with the application of Bayesian methods on Big Data using the Hadoop and Spark frameworks.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Why Bayesian inference for machine learning?

We have already discussed the advantages of Bayesian statistics over classical statistics in the last chapter. In this chapter, we will see in more detail how some of the concepts of Bayesian inference that we learned in the last chapter are useful in the context of machine learning. For this purpose, we take one simple machine learning task, namely linear regression. Let us consider a learning task where we have a dataset D containing N pair of points Why Bayesian inference for machine learning? and the goal is to build a machine learning model using linear regression that it can be used to predict values of Why Bayesian inference for machine learning?, given new values of Why Bayesian inference for machine learning?.

In linear regression, first, we assume that Y is of the following form:

Why Bayesian inference for machine learning?

Here, F(X) is a function that captures the true relationship between X and Y, and Why Bayesian inference for machine learning? is an error term that captures the inherent noise in the data. It is assumed that this noise is characterized by a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance Why Bayesian inference for machine learning?. What this implies is that if we have an infinite...

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