A prediction model is going to be built for in-line quality assurance in a factory that manufactures electronic components for the automotive industry. The system will be integrated into the factory's production line and determine whether components are of an acceptable quality standard based on a set of test results. The prediction subject is a component, and the descriptive features are a set of characteristics of the component that can be gathered on the production line. The target feature is binary and labels components as good or bad. It is extremely important that the system not in any way slow the production line and that the possibility of defective components being passed by the system be minimized as much as possible. Furthermore, when the system makes a mistake, it is desirable that the system can be retrained immediately using the instance that generated the mistake. When mistakes are made, it would be useful for the production line operators to be able to query the model to understand why it made the prediction that led to a mistake. A large set of historical labeled data is available for training the system.
a. Discuss the different issues that should be taken into account when evaluating the suitability of different machine learning approaches for use in this system.
b. For this task, discuss the suitability of the decision tree, k nearest neighbor, naive Bayes, and logistic regression models. Which one do you think would be most appropriate?