FAU Lecture Notes in Pattern Recognition

An Introduction to Prediction of Discrete and Continuous Variables

Classification vs Regression

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Welcome back to Pattern Recognition Q & A. Today I again received a couple of emails and I want to reply to some of your questions. So today’s topic will be classification and regression. We will see what are the differences between the two. We will look into a small regression problem and how to solve it with linear arguments.

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So you send quite a few emails and you send many many questions and I had to select only a few of them. I also present some of…