Chapter 12 Statistical Learning

• Statistical modeling is a formalization of relationships between variables in the data in the form of mathematical equations.

  • Statistics is about the sample, population, hypothesis, etc.

• Machine Learning is an algorithm that can learn from data without relying on rules-based programming.

  • Machine learning is all about predictions, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, etc.

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• Resource: CRAN Task View for Machine Learning and Statistical Learning