We are intrested in predicting the percentage of people commuting to work by walking given some input variables. Each observation corresponds to a different city and each input variable summarizes some characteristic of a given city, such as density, urban sprawl and average income per capita. This is   1. not a machine learning problem. Only social scientists would be interested in such a problem.   2. both a classification and a regression problem as it depends on the way one codes the output variable as either 0, 1 or a a particular number in the [0,1] interval.   3. a regression problem. The output variable is continuous.   4. a classification problem. Walking to work is a discrete variable and can only take two values: to walk to work and not to walk to wor

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We are intrested in predicting the percentage of people commuting to work by walking given some input variables. Each observation corresponds to a different city and each input variable summarizes some characteristic of a given city, such as density, urban sprawl and average income per capita. This is

  1.

not a machine learning problem. Only social scientists would be interested in such a problem.

  2.

both a classification and a regression problem as it depends on the way one codes the output variable as either 0, 1 or a a particular number in the [0,1] interval.

  3.

a regression problem. The output variable is continuous.

  4.

a classification problem. Walking to work is a discrete variable and can only take two values: to walk to work and not to walk to wor

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