Regulate Your Regression Model With Ridge, LASSO and ElasticNet

What are regularization techniques and why do we use them? A Python sklearn example is provided.

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD
Towards Data Science
9 min readFeb 17, 2022

--

Photo by Mike Cox on Unsplash

Linear models have a wide appeal. Even with a basic understanding of Excel, it is possible to create a model that explains patterns in data. After attaching weights (coefficients) to explanatory…

--

--

Assistant professor in Financial Engineering and Operations Research. Writing about reinforcement learning, optimization problems, and data science.