Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation Used
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics
- 3 Probability Distributions
- 4 Statistical Inference
- 5 Linear Regression
- 6 Neural Networks
- 7 Non-linear Optimization
- 8 Learning and Generalization
- 9 Principal Components and Canonical Correlation
- 10 Unsupervised Learning
- 11 Time Series
- 12 Classification
- 13 Kernel Methods
- 14 Decision Trees, Random Forests and Boosting
- 15 Deep Learning
- 16 Forecast Verification and Post-processing
- 17 Merging of Machine Learning and Physics
- Appendices
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation Used
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basics
- 3 Probability Distributions
- 4 Statistical Inference
- 5 Linear Regression
- 6 Neural Networks
- 7 Non-linear Optimization
- 8 Learning and Generalization
- 9 Principal Components and Canonical Correlation
- 10 Unsupervised Learning
- 11 Time Series
- 12 Classification
- 13 Kernel Methods
- 14 Decision Trees, Random Forests and Boosting
- 15 Deep Learning
- 16 Forecast Verification and Post-processing
- 17 Merging of Machine Learning and Physics
- Appendices
- References
- Index
Summary
The historical development of statistics and artificial intelligence (AI) is outlined, with machine learning (ML) emerging as the dominant branch of AI. Data science is viewed as being composed of a yin part (ML) and a yang part (statistics), and environmental data science is the intersection between data science and environmental science. Supervised learning and unsupervised learning are compared. Basic concepts of underfitting/overfitting and the curse of dimensionality are introduced.
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- Introduction to Environmental Data Science , pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023