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Marcel van Oijen ()

Chapter Chapter 20 in Bayesian Compendium, 2020, pp 141-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Machine learningMachine learning is the name for a very wide collection of techniques for exploring data and estimating functions. The field has expanded and diverged to the extent that it is hard to find common denominators. But we can say that the majority of machine learningMachine learning techniques do not focus on explanation or on uncertainty quantification, but on prediction.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55897-0_20

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