Related to issue: [SPARK-2550](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2550?jql=project%20%3D%20SPARK%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Major%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20DESC).

Author: Michael Giannakopoulos <miccagiann@gmail.com>

Closes #1624 from miccagiann/new-branch and squashes the following commits:

c02e5f5 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Merge cleanly with upstream/master.
8dcb888 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Putting the if/else if statements in brackets.
fed8eaa [Michael Giannakopoulos] Adding a space in the message related to the IllegalArgumentException.
44e6ff0 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Adding a blank line before python class LinearRegressionWithSGD.
8eba9c5 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Change function signatures. Exception is thrown from the scala component and not from the python one.
638be47 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Modified code to comply with code standards.
ec50ee9 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Shorten the if-elif-else statement in regression.py file
b962744 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Replaced the enum classes, with strings-keywords for defining the values of 'regType' parameter.
78853ec [Michael Giannakopoulos] Providing intercept and regualizer functionallity for linear methods in only one function.
3ac8874 [Michael Giannakopoulos] Added support for regularizer and intercection parameters for linear regression method.