Description
Winner of the 2014 Technometrics Ziegel Prize for Remarkable Book
Applied Predictive Modeling covers the total predictive modeling procedure, starting with the a very powerful steps of information preprocessing, information splitting and foundations of type tuning. The textual content then supplies intuitive motives of a large number of commonplace and brand new regression and class ways, all the time with an emphasis on illustrating and fixing actual information issues. Addressing sensible considerations extends past type installing to subjects comparable to dealing with magnificence imbalance, deciding on predictors, and pinpointing reasons of bad type efficiency―all of which might be issues that happen regularly in observe.
The textual content illustrates all portions of the modeling procedure thru many arms-on, actual-existence examples. And each and every bankruptcy incorporates intensive R code for each and every step of the method. The information units and corresponding code are to be had within the ebook’s better half AppliedPredictiveModeling R package deal, that’s freely to be had at the CRAN archive.
This multi-function textual content can be utilized as an advent to predictive fashions and the total modeling procedure, a practitioner’s reference guide, or as a textual content for complicated undergraduate or graduate stage predictive modeling classes. To that finish, each and every bankruptcy incorporates drawback units to lend a hand solidify the lined ideas and makes use of information to be had within the ebook’s R package deal.
Readers and scholars enthusiastic about enforcing the strategies must have a few elementary wisdom of R. And a handful of the extra complicated subjects require a few mathematical wisdom.
