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Predicting Heart Failure Survival with Machine Learning Models — Part II

Towards AI

That post was dedicated to an exploratory data analysis while this post is geared towards building prediction models. among supervised models and k-nearest neighbors, DBSCAN, etc., Motivation The motivating question is— ‘What are the chances of survival of a heart failure patient?’.

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Five machine learning types to know

IBM Journey to AI blog

Classification algorithms —predict categorical output variables (e.g., “junk” or “not junk”) by labeling pieces of input data. Classification algorithms include logistic regression, k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines (SVMs), among others.