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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)

Logic regression

In some scenarios, all the features in our datasets will be 1/0 dummies (1 flagging the presence of an attribute, and 0 otherwise). These can obviously be accommodated using any usual regression or classification technique. But the problem is that we wouldn't be truly analyzing the interactions between them, unless we add all possible interaction terms (this is usually a tedious task—and we would potentially need to add an enormour amount of combinations).

The relevant question in these cases, is whether the presence of an attribute in conjunction with the presence or absence of other attributes causes an effect. Logic regression can be used in both regression and classification models, and the objective is to find the best possible sets of interactions that cause the highest accuracy (for classification models) or the lowest RMSE (for regression models...