What does target mean in Scikit's Linear Regression object?

Question

I am using Scikit to perform ordinary linear regression on some random datapoints. However, I am confused as to what they mean by target values in their documentation of the fit method.

I am setting X to be an array of datapoints of the shape 100 x 2 (two dimensional). What do I pass as input for the y argument?

Answer 1

In this context, "target" is a synonym for "dependent variable", "response variable", "regressand", "measured variable", "responding variable", "explained variable", "outcome variable", "experimental variable", and "output variable." I.e. it's the thing your trying to predict.