Title: Ridge Regression
Slug: ridge_regression
Summary: How to conduct ridge regression in scikit-learn for machine learning in Python.
Date: 2017-09-18 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Linear Regression
Authors: Chris Albon
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# Load libraries
from sklearn.linear_model import Ridge
from sklearn.datasets import load_boston
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
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# Load data
boston = load_boston()
X = boston.data
y = boston.target
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# Standarize features
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_std = scaler.fit_transform(X)
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# Create ridge regression with an alpha value
regr = Ridge(alpha=0.5)
# Fit the linear regression
model = regr.fit(X_std, y)