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Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284395
Pages 572 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Profile icon Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Practical Machine Learning with R 2. Data Exploration with Air Quality Datasets 3. Analyzing Time Series Data 4. R and Statistics 5. Understanding Regression Analysis 6. Survival Analysis 7. Classification 1 - Tree, Lazy, and Probabilistic 8. Classification 2 - Neural Network and SVM 9. Model Evaluation 10. Ensemble Learning 11. Clustering 12. Association Analysis and Sequence Mining 13. Dimension Reduction 14. Big Data Analysis (R and Hadoop)

Fitting a generalized additive model to data


Generalized Additive Model (GAM), which is used to fit generalized additive models, can be viewed as a semiparametric extension of GLM. While GLM holds the assumption that there is a linear relationship between dependent and independent variables, GAM fits the model on account of the local behavior of data. As a result, GAM has the ability to deal with highly nonlinear relationships between dependent and independent variables. In the following recipe, we will introduce how to fit regression using a generalized additive model.

Getting ready

We need to prepare a data frame containing variables, where one of the variables is a response variable and the others may be predictor variables.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to fit a generalized additive model into data:

  1. First, load the mgcv package, which contains the gam function:
        > install.packages("mgcv")
        > library(mgcv)  
  1. Then, install the MASS package and load the Boston...
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