Glossary term
What is Regression?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Regression" means: A prediction question whose answer is a number, such as a price. It is taught in Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model and Prompt Engineering Essentials. Related terms include Predicting, Classification, Training (fitting) and Baseline. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Regression?
A prediction question whose answer is a number, such as a price. (From Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Regression mean in Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model?
A prediction question whose answer is a number, such as a price.
What does Regression mean in Prompt Engineering Essentials?
A change that fixes one problem and breaks something that used to work.
Where is Regression taught?
Regression is defined in Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model and Prompt Engineering Essentials.
Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working ModelPrompt Engineering Essentials
Which lessons cover Regression?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model, lesson 3.2: Logistic regression: a weighted sum turned into a probability
- Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model, lesson 4.1: Linear regression: the best straight line
Which terms are related to Regression?
Next to Regression in the course glossaries: Predicting, Classification, Training (fitting), Baseline, Row, Accuracy, Label (target), Training set, Test set and Knowledge cutoff.
PredictingClassificationTraining (fitting)BaselineRowAccuracyLabel (target)Training setTest setKnowledge cutoff
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Regression?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Machine Learning With Python: From Zero to a Working Model: Basic Python: variables, lists, dictionaries, functions, and running a .py file from a terminal.
- Prompt Engineering Essentials: No coding, statistics or prior AI experience needed.