机器学习（一）

一、机器学习的定义
Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed(1959)

A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some performance measure P,if its performance on T,as measured by P,improves with experience E(1998)

机器学习 按照大类可分为两类：

• Supervised Learning 监督学习
• Unsupervised Learning 无监督学习

二、监督学习
在监督学习部分，举了几个例子：

• 房价预测的例子，线性回归模型， Regression problem
• breast cancer（malignant, benign) 乳腺癌，恶性与良性的判断，Classification problem ->feature

problem1：You’re running a company, and you want to develop learning algorithms to address each of two problems. Problem 1:You have a large inventory of identical items. You want to predict how many of these items will sell over the next 3 months.
Problem 2: You’d like software to examine individual customer accounts, and fo