added about huber cost function

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 <center>[2] <b>Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University</b></center>
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-<center><h4>Aug 14, 2019</h4></center> <!-- date -->
+<center><h4>Dec 20, 2019</h4></center> <!-- date -->
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 <h2 id="___sec0">Introduction </h2>
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+<p>
+The squared cost function results in an arithmetic mean-unbiased
+estimator, and the absolute-value cost function results in a
+median-unbiased estimator (in the one-dimensional case, and a
+geometric median-unbiased estimator for the multi-dimensional
+case). The squared cost function has the disadvantage that it has the tendency
+to be dominated by outliers.
+
+<p>
 We can modify easily the above Python code and plot the relative error instead
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-Finally we present the 
+We present the 
 squared logarithmic (quadratic) error
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 as population counts, average sales of a commodity over a span of
 years etc.
 
+<p>
+Finally, another cost function is the Huber cost function used in robust regression.
+It is less sensitive to outliers in data than the squared error cost function.
+A variant for classification is also sometimes used, a quantity we will meet later.
+
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 We will discuss in more
 detail these and other functions in the various lectures.  We conclude this part with another example. Instead of