Get Started with Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox

Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox™ provides functions and apps to describe, analyze, and model data. You can use descriptive statistics, visualizations, and clustering for exploratory data analysis, fit probability distributions to data, generate random numbers for Monte Carlo simulations, and perform hypothesis tests. Regression and classification algorithms let you draw inferences from data and build predictive models either interactively, using the Classification and Regression Learner apps, or programmatically, using AutoML.

For multidimensional data analysis and feature extraction, the toolbox provides principal component analysis (PCA), regularization, dimensionality reduction, and feature selection methods that let you identify variables with the best predictive power.

The toolbox provides supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms, including support vector machines (SVMs), boosted decision trees, k-means, and other clustering methods. You can apply interpretability techniques such as partial dependence plots and LIME, and automatically generate C/C++ code for embedded deployment. Many toolbox algorithms can be used on data sets that are too big to be stored in memory.

Tutorials

• Machine Learning in MATLAB
  

  Discover machine learning capabilities in MATLAB^® for classification, regression, clustering, and deep learning, including apps for automated model training and code generation.

• Train Classification Models in Classification Learner App
  

  Workflow for training, comparing and improving classification models, including automated, manual, and parallel training.

• Train Regression Models in Regression Learner App
  

  Workflow for training, comparing and improving regression models, including automated, manual, and parallel training.

• Distribution Plots
  

  Visually compare the empirical distribution of sample data with a specified distribution.

• Explore the Random Number Generation UI
  

  Generate random samples from specified probability distributions, and displays display the samples as histograms.

• Supervised Learning Workflow and Algorithms
  

  Understand the steps for supervised learning and the characteristics of nonparametric classification and regression functions.

• Design of Experiments
  

  Address statistical modeling problems with active data collection.