Evolutionary Regression and Modelling

Regression and modelling, which identify the relationship between the dependent and independent variables, play an important role in knowledge discovery from data. Symbolic regressionSymbolic regression goes a step further by learning explicitly symbolic models from data that are potentially interpretable. This chapter provides an overview of evolutionary computation techniques for regression and modelling including coefficient learning and symbolic regressionSymbolic regression. We introduce the ideas behind various evolutionary computation methods for regression and present a review of the efforts on enhancing learning capability, generalisation, interpretabilityInterpretability and imputationImputation of missing dataMissing data in evolutionary computation for regression.