@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ In this lesson, you will discover a specific way to build models with [**SVM**:
Before understanding the importance of SVR in time series prediction, here are some of the important concepts that you need to know:
- **Regression:** Supervised learning technique to predict continuous values from a given set of inputs. The idea is to fit a curve (or line) in the feature space that has the maximum number of data points.
- **Support Vector Machine (SVM):** A type of supervised machine learning model used for classification, regression and outliers detection. The model is a hyperplane in the feature space, which in case of classification acts as a boundary, and in case of regression acts as the best-fit line. In SVM, a kernel function is generally used to transform the dataset, so that a non-linear decision surface is able to transform to a linear equation in a higher number of dimension spaces.
- **Support Vector Machine (SVM):** A type of supervised machine learning model used for classification, regression and outliers detection. The model is a hyperplane in the feature space, which in case of classification acts as a boundary, and in case of regression acts as the best-fit line. In SVM, a Kernel function is generally used to transform the dataset, so that a non-linear decision surface is able to transform to a linear equation in a higher number of dimension spaces.
- **Support Vector Regressor (SVR):** A type of SVM, to find the best fit line (which in the case of SVM is a hyperplane) that has the maximum number of data points.
### Why SVR?
In the last lesson you learned about ARIMA, which is a very successful statistical linear method to forecast time series data. However, in many cases, time series data have non-linearity, which cannot be mapped by linear models. The ability of SVM to consider nonlinearity in the data for regression tasks makes SVR successful in time series forecasting.
In the last lesson you learned about ARIMA, which is a very successful statistical linear method to forecast time series data. However, in many cases, time series data have *non-linearity*, which cannot be mapped by linear models. The ability of SVM to consider nonlinearity in the data for regression tasks makes SVR successful in time series forecasting.