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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

You're reading from   Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R A beginner's guide to combining the power of machine learning algorithms using ensemble techniques

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Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624145
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar is a lead statistician and manager at the Global Data Insights & Analytics division of Ford Motor Company, Chennai. He received the IBS(IR)-GK Shukla Young Biometrician Award (2005) and Dr. U.S. Nair Award for Young Statistician (2007). He held SRF of CSIR-UGC during his PhD. He has authored books such as Statistical Application Development with R and Python, 2nd Edition, Packt; Practical Data Science Cookbook, 2nd Edition, Packt; and A Course in Statistics with R, Wiley. He has created many R packages.
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Preface 1. Introduction to Ensemble Techniques FREE CHAPTER 2. Bootstrapping 3. Bagging 4. Random Forests 5. The Bare Bones Boosting Algorithms 6. Boosting Refinements 7. The General Ensemble Technique 8. Ensemble Diagnostics 9. Ensembling Regression Models 10. Ensembling Survival Models 11. Ensembling Time Series Models 12. What's Next?
A. Bibliography Index

Technical requirements

We will need the following R packages for this chapter:

  • adabag

  • caret

  • caretEnsemble

  • ClustofVar

  • FactoMinR

  • gbm

  • ipred

  • missForest

  • nnet

  • NeuralNetTools

  • plyr

  • rpart

  • RSADBE

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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar is a lead statistician and manager at the Global Data Insights & Analytics division of Ford Motor Company, Chennai. He received the IBS(IR)-GK Shukla Young Biometrician Award (2005) and Dr. U.S. Nair Award for Young Statistician (2007). He held SRF of CSIR-UGC during his PhD. He has authored books such as Statistical Application Development with R and Python, 2nd Edition, Packt; Practical Data Science Cookbook, 2nd Edition, Packt; and A Course in Statistics with R, Wiley. He has created many R packages.
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