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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R

Mastering Predictive Analytics with R

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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R

Mastering Predictive Analytics with R

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Overview of this book

This book is intended for the budding data scientist, predictive modeler, or quantitative analyst with only a basic exposure to R and statistics. It is also designed to be a reference for experienced professionals wanting to brush up on the details of a particular type of predictive model. Mastering Predictive Analytics with R assumes familiarity with only the fundamentals of R, such as the main data types, simple functions, and how to move data around. No prior experience with machine learning or predictive modeling is assumed, however you should have a basic understanding of statistics and calculus at a high school level.
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Simple linear regression


Before looking at some real-world data sets, it is very helpful to try to train a model on artificially generated data. In an artificial scenario such as this, we know what the true output function is beforehand, something that as a rule is not the case when it comes to real-world data. The advantage of performing this exercise is that it gives us a good idea of how our model works under the ideal scenario when all of our assumptions are fully satisfied, and it helps visualize what happens when we have a good linear fit. We'll begin by simulating a simple linear regression model. The following R snippet is used to create a data frame with 100 simulated observations of the following linear model with a single input feature:

Here is the code for the simple linear regression model:

> set.seed(5427395)
> nObs = 100
> x1minrange = 5
> x1maxrange = 25
> x1 = runif(nObs, x1minrange, x1maxrange)
> e = rnorm(nObs, mean = 0, sd = 2.0)
> y = 1.67 * x1 - 2...
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