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- ML - Supervised vs. Unsupervised
- Machine Learning Data Visualization
- ML - Data Visualization
- ML - Histograms
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- Statistics for Machine Learning
- ML - Statistics
- ML - Mean, Median, Mode
- ML - Standard Deviation
- ML - Percentiles
- ML - Data Distribution
- ML - Skewness and Kurtosis
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- Regression Analysis In ML
- ML - Regression Analysis
- ML - Linear Regression
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- Classification Algorithms In ML
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- Clustering Algorithms In ML
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- ML - HDBSCAN Clustering
- ML - BIRCH Clustering
- ML - Affinity Propagation
- ML - Distribution-Based Clustering
- ML - Agglomerative Clustering
- Dimensionality Reduction In ML
- ML - Dimensionality Reduction
- ML - Feature Selection
- ML - Feature Extraction
- ML - Backward Elimination
- ML - Forward Feature Construction
- ML - High Correlation Filter
- ML - Low Variance Filter
- ML - Missing Values Ratio
- ML - Principal Component Analysis
- Reinforcement Learning
- ML - Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- ML - Exploitation & Exploration
- ML - Q-Learning
- ML - REINFORCE Algorithm
- ML - SARSA Reinforcement Learning
- ML - Actor-critic Method
- ML - Monte Carlo Methods
- ML - Temporal Difference
- Deep Reinforcement Learning
- ML - Deep Reinforcement Learning
- ML - Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- ML - Deep Q-Networks
- ML - Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient
- ML - Trust Region Methods
- Quantum Machine Learning
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- ML - Quantum Machine Learning with Python
- Machine Learning Miscellaneous
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- ML - Bootstrap Aggregation (Bagging)
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- ML - Gaussian Discriminant Analysis
- ML - Cost Function
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- ML - Precision and Recall
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- ML - Regularization
- ML - Overfitting
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Machine Learning - Percentiles
Percentiles are a statistical concept used in machine learning to describe the distribution of a dataset. A percentile is a measure that indicates the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.
For example, the 25th percentile (also known as the first quartile) is the value below which 25% of the observations in the dataset fall, while the 75th percentile (also known as the third quartile) is the value below which 75% of the observations in the dataset fall.
Percentiles can be used to summarize the distribution of a dataset and identify outliers. In machine learning, percentiles are often used in data preprocessing and exploratory data analysis to gain insights into the data.
Python provides several libraries for calculating percentiles, including NumPy and Pandas.
Calculating Percentiles using NumPy
Below is an example of how to calculate percentiles using NumPy −
Example
import numpy as np
data = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
p25 = np.percentile(data, 25)
p75 = np.percentile(data, 75)
print('25th percentile:', p25)
print('75th percentile:', p75)
In this example, we create a sample dataset using NumPy and then calculate the 25th and 75th percentiles using the np.percentile() function.
Output
The output shows the values of the percentiles for the dataset.
25th percentile: 2.0 75th percentile: 4.0
Calculating Percentiles using Pandas
Below is an example of how to calculate percentiles using Pandas −
Example
import pandas as pd
data = pd.Series([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
p25 = data.quantile(0.25)
p75 = data.quantile(0.75)
print('25th percentile:', p25)
print('75th percentile:', p75)
In this example, we create a Pandas series object and then calculate the 25th and 75th percentiles using the quantile() method of the series object.
Output
The output shows the values of the percentiles for the dataset.
25th percentile: 2.0 75th percentile: 4.0