That is a regression, not a classifier. There are no good regression in Mahout just now.
How large is your data? Is R not an option? On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:31 AM, ParvathyPillai <[email protected]>wrote: > I am currently working on a project which deals with demand forecasting and > machine learning on Hadoop. I came across Mahout when researching for this. > From the various tutorials and 'Mahout in Action' book, I came to > understand > that classification algorithms on Mahout though allow the use of continuous > predictor variables, needs the target variables to be categorical. Is it > possible to apply these classification algorithms for predicting the values > of continuous variables, essentially like demand? If so, how? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Forecasting-in-Mahout-tp3985365.html > Sent from the Mahout User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
