MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

© Michael Paluszek and Stephanie Thomas  2019

Michael Paluszek and Stephanie ThomasMATLAB Machine Learning Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3916-2_1

1. An Overview of Machine Learning

Michael Paluszek¹  and Stephanie Thomas¹

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Plainsboro, NJ, USA

 

1.1 Introduction

Machine learning is a field in computer science where data are used to predict, or respond to, future data. It is closely related to the fields of pattern recognition, computational statistics, and artificial intelligence. The data may be historical or updated in real-time. Machine learning is important in areas such as facial recognition, spam filtering, and other areas where it is not feasible, or even possible, to write algorithms to perform a task.

For example, early attempts ...