es elastic net.  

Be sure to [read the glmnet vignette](https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/Glmnet_Vignette.pdf).  

### Open "3-lasso.Rmd" to work through the regression examples. 

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# Lasso

"Illustration of the Lasso and its path in 2D: for t small enough, the solution is sparse!" - Pierre Ablin

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source: https://twitter.com/PierreAblin/status/1107625298936451073

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# Decision trees

Decision trees are a standard alternative to linear regression and m