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title: Advanced concepts for data frame analytics
description: This section explains the more complex concepts of the Elastic machine learning data frame analytics feature. How data frame analytics analytics jobs...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-dfa-concepts
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Machine Learning
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Advanced concepts for data frame analytics
This section explains the more complex concepts of the Elastic machine learning data frame analytics feature.
- [How data frame analytics analytics jobs work](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-dfa-phases)
- [Working with data frame analytics at scale](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-dfa-scale)
- [Adding custom URLs to data frame analytics analytics jobs](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-dfa-custom-urls)
- [Feature encoding](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-feature-encoding)
- [Feature processors](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-feature-processors)
- [Feature importance](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-feature-importance)
- [Loss functions for regression analyses](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/dfa-regression-lossfunction)
- [Hyperparameter optimization](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/hyperparameters)
- [Trained models](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5017/explore-analyze/machine-learning/data-frame-analytics/ml-trained-models)