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R Statistics Cookbook

By : Francisco Juretig
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Book Image

R Statistics Cookbook

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By: Francisco Juretig

Overview of this book

R is a popular programming language for developing statistical software. This book will be a useful guide to solving common and not-so-common challenges in statistics. With this book, you'll be equipped to confidently perform essential statistical procedures across your organization with the help of cutting-edge statistical tools. You'll start by implementing data modeling, data analysis, and machine learning to solve real-world problems. You'll then understand how to work with nonparametric methods, mixed effects models, and hidden Markov models. This book contains recipes that will guide you in performing univariate and multivariate hypothesis tests, several regression techniques, and using robust techniques to minimize the impact of outliers in data.You'll also learn how to use the caret package for performing machine learning in R. Furthermore, this book will help you understand how to interpret charts and plots to get insights for better decision making. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply your skills to statistical computations using R 3.5. You will also become well-versed with a wide array of statistical techniques in R that are extensively used in the data science industry.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Bayesian variable selection

Bayesian variable selection within a classical context is usually simple. It really boils down to selecting an appropriate metric (such as the AIC or p-values) and evaluating the model in a greedy way; starting with either a simple (or complex) model, and seeing what happens when we add (or remove) terms.

In a Bayesian context, things are not that easy, since we are not treating parameters as fixed values. We are estimating a posterior density, but a density itself has no significance so we can no longer remove them based on p-values. The AIC way can't be used either, as we don't have an AIC value, but a distribution of possible AICs.

Clearly, we need a different way of doing variable selection that takes into consideration that we are dealing with densities. Kuo and Mallick (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25053023?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents...