Linear Regression with

multiple variables

Multiple features
• Different names
• Number of dependent & independent variables
• Regression and nature of dependent variable
• Nature of the model assuming y=f(x1, x2, ..., xn)
• House Price Prediction Example (Next Slide)
Multiple features (variables).

Size (feet2) Price ($1000)

2104 460
1416 232
1534 315
852 178
… …

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Multiple features (variables).

Size (feet2) Number of Number of Age of home Price ($1000)

bedrooms floors (years)

2104 5 1 45 460
1416 3 2 40 232
1534 3 2 30 315
852 2 1 36 178
… … … … …

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Multiple features (variables).
Size (feet2) Number of Number of Age of home Price ($1000)
bedrooms floors (years)

2104 5 1 45 460
1416 3 2 40 232
1534 3 2 30 315
852 2 1 36 178
… … … … …
Notation:
= number of features
= input (features) of training example.
= value of feature in training example.

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Hypothesis:
Previously:

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For convenience of notation, define .

Multivariate linear regression.

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Linear Regression with
multiple variables

Gradient descent for

multiple variables
Hypothesis:
Parameters:
Cost function:

Gradient descent:
Repeat

(simultaneously update for every )

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Hypothesis:
Parameters:
Cost function:

Gradient descent:
Repeat

(simultaneously update for every )

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 New algorithm :
Gradient Descent
Repeat
Previously (n=1):
Repeat
(simultaneously update for
)

(simultaneously update )

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Linear Regression with
multiple variables
Gradient descent in
practice I: Feature Scaling
Feature Scaling
Get every feature into approximately a range.

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 Linear Regression with
multiple variables

Gradient descent in
practice II: Learning rate
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Gradient descent

- “Debugging”: How to make sure gradient

descent is working correctly.
- How to choose learning rate .

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Making sure gradient descent is working correctly.

Example automatic
convergence test:

Declare convergence if
decreases by less than
in one iteration.
0 100 200 300 400
No. of iterations
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Making sure gradient descent is working correctly.
Gradient descent not working.
Use smaller .

No. of iterations

No. of iterations No. of iterations

- For sufficiently small , should decrease on every iteration.

- But if is too small, gradient descent can be slow to converge.
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Summary:
- If is too small: slow convergence.
- If is too large: may not decrease on
every iteration; may not converge.

To choose , try

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 Linear Regression with
multiple variables

Features and
polynomial regression
Machine Learning
 Polynomial regression

Price
(y)

Size (x)

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Choice of features

Price
(y)

Size (x)

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 Linear Regression with
multiple variables

Normal equation

Machine Learning
Gradient Descent

Normal equation: Method to solve for

analytically.

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Intuition: If 1D

(for every )

Solve for
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Examples:
Size (feet2) Number of Number of Age of home Price ($1000)
bedrooms floors (years)

1 2104 5 1 45 460
1 1416 3 2 40 232
1 1534 3 2 30 315
1 852 2 1 36 178

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 Show the derivation for
this equation on Board.

is inverse of matrix .

Octave: pinv(X’*X)*X’*y

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 training examples, features.
Gradient Descent Normal Equation
• Need to choose . • No need to choose .
• Needs many iterations. • Don’t need to iterate.
• Works well even • Need to compute
when is large.
• Slow if is very large.

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 Linear Regression with
multiple variables
Normal equation
and non-invertibility
(optional)
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Normal equation

- What if is non-invertible? (singular/

degenerate)
- Octave: pinv(X’*X)*X’*y

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What if is non-invertible?
• Redundant features (linearly dependent).
E.g. size in feet2
size in m2

• Too many features (e.g. ).

- Delete some features, or use regularization.

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 Error Measures

𝑑
1 𝑦𝑖 − 𝑦𝑖′
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐸𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟: ෍
𝑑 𝑦𝑖
𝑖=1

𝑑
2
(𝑦𝑖 − 𝑦𝑖′ )2 𝑅𝑀𝑆𝐸
𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟: ෍ 𝑁𝑅𝑀𝑆𝐸 =
𝑑 𝑦𝑚𝑎𝑥 − 𝑦𝑚𝑖𝑛
𝑖=1
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Evaluating Predictor
Training + Test Set (Holdout Set)
Cross Validation
Training + Validation + Test Set
Training + Test Set and Cross Validation of Training Set for Model Selection

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 References
➢ Andrew Ng’s slides on Multiple Linear Regression
from his Machine Learning Course on Coursera.
➢ Data Mining Book from Han and Kamber

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 Disclaimer
➢ Content of this presentation is not original and it
has been prepared from various sources for
teaching purpose.

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