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This chapter and the next concern the mathematical modeling of data that is the essential core of data science. We can call this statistics, or we can call it machine learning. At its core, it is the same thing. It is all about extracting information out of data.
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Mailund, T. (2017). Supervised Learning. In: Beginning Data Science in R. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2671-1_6
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