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# Model
After reading this chapter, what can you do that you couldn't before?
Focus on fitting a single model, and understanding it with broom. Focus on linear models. Focus on intutition and computation tools. No mathematics.
Review caret and mlr.
"Feature engineering":
* Factors
* Interactions
* Splines
* Log transform
[Applied Predictive Modeling](http://amzn.com/1461468485).
[An Introduction to Statistical Learning](http://amzn.com/1461471370)
# Other model families
List of important classes on modelling; paragraph about why it's useful/different to lm, and a pointer to where to learn more.
* Generalised linear models: logistic, ...
* Hierarchical models
* Random forrests
* Unsupervised techniques