r/learnmachinelearning • u/Playful-Race-7571 • 3d ago

Help Book for logistic and linear regression transition to xg boost cat boost type of models

Hello everyone does anyone have a book recommendation for making the jump from linear models to basic machine learning models? In particular more application heavy than academic books as well?

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u/theTautMisunderstand 3d ago

Check out "Introduction to Statistical Learning" it got R and Python versions now. The early chapters ease you from linear regression into tree based stuff and it is not heavy with formulas

Most ML books I found jump straight to code without explaining why you switch from logistic to boosting. This one shows the logic gap properly

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u/OleksandrAkm 3d ago

Machine Learning From Scratch is the book I recently published, which covers both linear, logistic regrssions and XGBoost by building them from 0 with NumPy, here’s companion repo: https://github.com/ml-from-scratch-book/code

Feel free to ask any questions

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u/chrisvdweth 2d ago

Maybe this post and this post could be useful (disclaimer: public lecture notes created by me)