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Regression Analysis with R

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro
Book Image

Regression Analysis with R

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro

Overview of this book

Regression analysis is a statistical process which enables prediction of relationships between variables. The predictions are based on the casual effect of one variable upon another. Regression techniques for modeling and analyzing are employed on large set of data in order to reveal hidden relationship among the variables. This book will give you a rundown explaining what regression analysis is, explaining you the process from scratch. The first few chapters give an understanding of what the different types of learning are – supervised and unsupervised, how these learnings differ from each other. We then move to covering the supervised learning in details covering the various aspects of regression analysis. The outline of chapters are arranged in a way that gives a feel of all the steps covered in a data science process – loading the training dataset, handling missing values, EDA on the dataset, transformations and feature engineering, model building, assessing the model fitting and performance, and finally making predictions on unseen datasets. Each chapter starts with explaining the theoretical concepts and once the reader gets comfortable with the theory, we move to the practical examples to support the understanding. The practical examples are illustrated using R code including the different packages in R such as R Stats, Caret and so on. Each chapter is a mix of theory and practical examples. By the end of this book you will know all the concepts and pain-points related to regression analysis, and you will be able to implement your learning in your projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Random forest regression with the Boston dataset


In this section, we will run a random forest regression for the Boston dataset; the median values of owner-occupied homes are predicted for the test data. The dataset describes 13 numerical properties of houses in Boston suburbs, and is concerned with modeling the price of houses in those suburbs in thousands of dollars. As such, this is a regression predictive modeling problem. Input attributes include features like crime rate, proportion of non-retail business acres, chemical concentrations, and more.

Note

To get the data, we draw on the large collection of data available in the UCI Machine Learning Repository at the following link:http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml

The following list shows all the variables, followed by a brief description:

  • Number of instances: 506
  • Number of attributes: 14 continuous attributes (including the class attribute medv), and one binary-valued attribute

Each of the attributes is detailed as follows:

  • crim: Per capita crime...