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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="supervised_learning.html">1. Supervised learning</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/linear_model.html">1.1. Linear Models</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/linear_model.html#ordinary-least-squares">1.1.1. Ordinary Least Squares</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/linear_model.html#orthogonal-matching-pursuit-omp">1.1.9. Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/linear_model.html#bayesian-regression">1.1.10. Bayesian Regression</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/linear_model.html#robustness-regression-outliers-and-modeling-errors">1.1.16. Robustness regression: outliers and modeling errors</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/lda_qda.html#mathematical-formulation-of-the-lda-and-qda-classifiers">1.2.2. Mathematical formulation of the LDA and QDA classifiers</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_decomposition.html#plssvd">1.8.2. PLSSVD</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html">2.2. Manifold learning</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#introduction">2.2.1. Introduction</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#isomap">2.2.2. Isomap</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#locally-linear-embedding">2.2.3. Locally Linear Embedding</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#modified-locally-linear-embedding">2.2.4. Modified Locally Linear Embedding</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#hessian-eigenmapping">2.2.5. Hessian Eigenmapping</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#spectral-embedding">2.2.6. Spectral Embedding</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#local-tangent-space-alignment">2.2.7. Local Tangent Space Alignment</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#multi-dimensional-scaling-mds">2.2.8. Multi-dimensional Scaling (MDS)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#t-distributed-stochastic-neighbor-embedding-t-sne">2.2.9. t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/manifold.html#tips-on-practical-use">2.2.10. Tips on practical use</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html">2.3. Clustering</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#overview-of-clustering-methods">2.3.1. Overview of clustering methods</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#k-means">2.3.2. K-means</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#affinity-propagation">2.3.3. Affinity Propagation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#mean-shift">2.3.4. Mean Shift</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#spectral-clustering">2.3.5. Spectral clustering</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#hierarchical-clustering">2.3.6. Hierarchical clustering</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#dbscan">2.3.7. DBSCAN</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#hdbscan">2.3.8. HDBSCAN</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#optics">2.3.9. OPTICS</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#birch">2.3.10. BIRCH</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/clustering.html#clustering-performance-evaluation">2.3.11. Clustering performance evaluation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/biclustering.html">2.4. Biclustering</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/biclustering.html#spectral-co-clustering">2.4.1. Spectral Co-Clustering</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/biclustering.html#spectral-biclustering">2.4.2. Spectral Biclustering</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/biclustering.html#biclustering-evaluation">2.4.3. Biclustering evaluation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html">2.5. Decomposing signals in components (matrix factorization problems)</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#principal-component-analysis-pca">2.5.1. Principal component analysis (PCA)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#kernel-principal-component-analysis-kpca">2.5.2. Kernel Principal Component Analysis (kPCA)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#truncated-singular-value-decomposition-and-latent-semantic-analysis">2.5.3. Truncated singular value decomposition and latent semantic analysis</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#dictionary-learning">2.5.4. Dictionary Learning</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#factor-analysis">2.5.5. Factor Analysis</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#independent-component-analysis-ica">2.5.6. Independent component analysis (ICA)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#non-negative-matrix-factorization-nmf-or-nnmf">2.5.7. Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF or NNMF)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/decomposition.html#latent-dirichlet-allocation-lda">2.5.8. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/covariance.html">2.6. Covariance estimation</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/covariance.html#empirical-covariance">2.6.1. Empirical covariance</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/covariance.html#shrunk-covariance">2.6.2. Shrunk Covariance</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/covariance.html#sparse-inverse-covariance">2.6.3. Sparse inverse covariance</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/covariance.html#robust-covariance-estimation">2.6.4. Robust Covariance Estimation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/outlier_detection.html">2.7. Novelty and Outlier Detection</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/outlier_detection.html#overview-of-outlier-detection-methods">2.7.1. Overview of outlier detection methods</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/outlier_detection.html#novelty-detection">2.7.2. Novelty Detection</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/outlier_detection.html#id1">2.7.3. Outlier Detection</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/outlier_detection.html#novelty-detection-with-local-outlier-factor">2.7.4. Novelty detection with Local Outlier Factor</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/density.html">2.8. Density Estimation</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/density.html#density-estimation-histograms">2.8.1. Density Estimation: Histograms</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/density.html#kernel-density-estimation">2.8.2. Kernel Density Estimation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/neural_networks_unsupervised.html">2.9. Neural network models (unsupervised)</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/neural_networks_unsupervised.html#restricted-boltzmann-machines">2.9.1. Restricted Boltzmann machines</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="model_selection.html">3. Model selection and evaluation</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html">3.1. Cross-validation: evaluating estimator performance</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html#computing-cross-validated-metrics">3.1.1. Computing cross-validated metrics</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html#cross-validation-iterators">3.1.2. Cross validation iterators</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html#a-note-on-shuffling">3.1.3. A note on shuffling</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html#cross-validation-and-model-selection">3.1.4. Cross validation and model selection</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/cross_validation.html#permutation-test-score">3.1.5. Permutation test score</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html">3.2. Tuning the hyper-parameters of an estimator</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html#exhaustive-grid-search">3.2.1. Exhaustive Grid Search</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html#randomized-parameter-optimization">3.2.2. Randomized Parameter Optimization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html#searching-for-optimal-parameters-with-successive-halving">3.2.3. Searching for optimal parameters with successive halving</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html#tips-for-parameter-search">3.2.4. Tips for parameter search</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/grid_search.html#alternatives-to-brute-force-parameter-search">3.2.5. Alternatives to brute force parameter search</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/classification_threshold.html">3.3. Tuning the decision threshold for class prediction</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/classification_threshold.html#post-tuning-the-decision-threshold">3.3.1. Post-tuning the decision threshold</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html">3.4. Metrics and scoring: quantifying the quality of predictions</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#the-scoring-parameter-defining-model-evaluation-rules">3.4.1. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scoring</span></code> parameter: defining model evaluation rules</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#classification-metrics">3.4.2. Classification metrics</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#multilabel-ranking-metrics">3.4.3. Multilabel ranking metrics</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#regression-metrics">3.4.4. Regression metrics</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#clustering-metrics">3.4.5. Clustering metrics</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/model_evaluation.html#dummy-estimators">3.4.6. Dummy estimators</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/learning_curve.html">3.5. Validation curves: plotting scores to evaluate models</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/learning_curve.html#validation-curve">3.5.1. Validation curve</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/learning_curve.html#learning-curve">3.5.2. Learning curve</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="inspection.html">4. Inspection</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/partial_dependence.html">4.1. Partial Dependence and Individual Conditional Expectation plots</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/partial_dependence.html#partial-dependence-plots">4.1.1. Partial dependence plots</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/partial_dependence.html#individual-conditional-expectation-ice-plot">4.1.2. Individual conditional expectation (ICE) plot</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/partial_dependence.html#mathematical-definition">4.1.3. Mathematical Definition</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/partial_dependence.html#computation-methods">4.1.4. Computation methods</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/permutation_importance.html">4.2. Permutation feature importance</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/permutation_importance.html#outline-of-the-permutation-importance-algorithm">4.2.1. Outline of the permutation importance algorithm</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/permutation_importance.html#relation-to-impurity-based-importance-in-trees">4.2.2. Relation to impurity-based importance in trees</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/permutation_importance.html#misleading-values-on-strongly-correlated-features">4.2.3. Misleading values on strongly correlated features</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="visualizations.html">5. Visualizations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="visualizations.html#available-plotting-utilities">5.1. Available Plotting Utilities</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="visualizations.html#display-objects">5.1.1. Display Objects</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="data_transforms.html">6. Dataset transformations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html">6.1. Pipelines and composite estimators</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html#pipeline-chaining-estimators">6.1.1. Pipeline: chaining estimators</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html#transforming-target-in-regression">6.1.2. Transforming target in regression</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html#featureunion-composite-feature-spaces">6.1.3. FeatureUnion: composite feature spaces</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html#columntransformer-for-heterogeneous-data">6.1.4. ColumnTransformer for heterogeneous data</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/compose.html#visualizing-composite-estimators">6.1.5. Visualizing Composite Estimators</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/feature_extraction.html">6.2. Feature extraction</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/feature_extraction.html#loading-features-from-dicts">6.2.1. Loading features from dicts</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/feature_extraction.html#feature-hashing">6.2.2. Feature hashing</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/feature_extraction.html#text-feature-extraction">6.2.3. Text feature extraction</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/feature_extraction.html#image-feature-extraction">6.2.4. Image feature extraction</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html">6.3. Preprocessing data</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#standardization-or-mean-removal-and-variance-scaling">6.3.1. Standardization, or mean removal and variance scaling</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#non-linear-transformation">6.3.2. Non-linear transformation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#normalization">6.3.3. Normalization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#encoding-categorical-features">6.3.4. Encoding categorical features</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#discretization">6.3.5. Discretization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#imputation-of-missing-values">6.3.6. Imputation of missing values</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#generating-polynomial-features">6.3.7. Generating polynomial features</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing.html#custom-transformers">6.3.8. Custom transformers</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html">6.4. Imputation of missing values</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#univariate-vs-multivariate-imputation">6.4.1. Univariate vs. Multivariate Imputation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#univariate-feature-imputation">6.4.2. Univariate feature imputation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#multivariate-feature-imputation">6.4.3. Multivariate feature imputation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#nearest-neighbors-imputation">6.4.4. Nearest neighbors imputation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#keeping-the-number-of-features-constant">6.4.5. Keeping the number of features constant</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#marking-imputed-values">6.4.6. Marking imputed values</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/impute.html#estimators-that-handle-nan-values">6.4.7. Estimators that handle NaN values</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/unsupervised_reduction.html">6.5. Unsupervised dimensionality reduction</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/unsupervised_reduction.html#pca-principal-component-analysis">6.5.1. PCA: principal component analysis</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/unsupervised_reduction.html#random-projections">6.5.2. Random projections</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/unsupervised_reduction.html#feature-agglomeration">6.5.3. Feature agglomeration</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/random_projection.html">6.6. Random Projection</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/random_projection.html#the-johnson-lindenstrauss-lemma">6.6.1. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/random_projection.html#gaussian-random-projection">6.6.2. Gaussian random projection</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/random_projection.html#sparse-random-projection">6.6.3. Sparse random projection</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/random_projection.html#inverse-transform">6.6.4. Inverse Transform</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html">6.7. Kernel Approximation</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#nystroem-method-for-kernel-approximation">6.7.1. Nystroem Method for Kernel Approximation</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#radial-basis-function-kernel">6.7.2. Radial Basis Function Kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#additive-chi-squared-kernel">6.7.3. Additive Chi Squared Kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#skewed-chi-squared-kernel">6.7.4. Skewed Chi Squared Kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#polynomial-kernel-approximation-via-tensor-sketch">6.7.5. Polynomial Kernel Approximation via Tensor Sketch</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/kernel_approximation.html#mathematical-details">6.7.6. Mathematical Details</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html">6.8. Pairwise metrics, Affinities and Kernels</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#cosine-similarity">6.8.1. Cosine similarity</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#linear-kernel">6.8.2. Linear kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#polynomial-kernel">6.8.3. Polynomial kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#sigmoid-kernel">6.8.4. Sigmoid kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#rbf-kernel">6.8.5. RBF kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#laplacian-kernel">6.8.6. Laplacian kernel</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/metrics.html#chi-squared-kernel">6.8.7. Chi-squared kernel</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing_targets.html">6.9. Transforming the prediction target (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">y</span></code>)</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing_targets.html#label-binarization">6.9.1. Label binarization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="modules/preprocessing_targets.html#label-encoding">6.9.2. Label encoding</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets.html">7. Dataset loading utilities</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html">7.1. Toy datasets</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#iris-plants-dataset">7.1.1. Iris plants dataset</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#diabetes-dataset">7.1.2. Diabetes dataset</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#optical-recognition-of-handwritten-digits-dataset">7.1.3. Optical recognition of handwritten digits dataset</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#linnerrud-dataset">7.1.4. Linnerrud dataset</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#wine-recognition-dataset">7.1.5. Wine recognition dataset</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="datasets/toy_dataset.html#breast-cancer-wisconsin-diagnostic-dataset">7.1.6. Breast cancer wisconsin (diagnostic) dataset</a></li>
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