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Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

Machine Learning with R Cookbook

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

<p>The R language is a powerful open source functional programming language. At its core, R is a statistical programming language that provides impressive tools to analyze data and create high-level graphics.</p> <p>This book covers the basics of R by setting up a user-friendly programming environment and performing data ETL in R. Data exploration examples are provided that demonstrate how powerful data visualization and machine learning is in discovering hidden relationships. You will then dive into important machine learning topics, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Machine Learning with R Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Resources for R and Machine Learning
Dataset – Survival of Passengers on the Titanic
Index

Conducting a one-way ANOVA


Analysis of variance (ANOVA) investigates the relationship between categorical independent variables and continuous dependent variables. It can be used to test whether the means of several groups are equal. If there is only one categorical variable as an independent variable, you can perform a one-way ANOVA. On the other hand, if there are more than two categorical variables, you should perform a two-way ANOVA. In this recipe, we discuss how to conduct a one-way ANOVA with R.

Getting ready

Ensure that mtcars has already been loaded into a data frame within an R session. Since the oneway.test and TukeyHSD functions originated from the stats package, make sure the library, stats, is loaded.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. We begin exploring by visualizing the data with a boxplot:

    > boxplot(mtcars$mpg~factor(mtcars$gear),xlab='gear',ylab='mpg')
    

    Comparison of mpg of different numbers of forward gears

  2. Next, we conduct a one-way ANOVA to examine whether...