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Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624145
Pages 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Hands-On Ensemble Learning with R
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to Ensemble Techniques 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?
Bibliography Index

The boot package


The boot package is one of the core R packages, and it is optimized for the implementation of bootstrap methods. In the previous examples, we mostly used loops for carrying out the resampling technique. Here, we will look at how to use the boot R package.

The main structure of the boot function is as follows:

boot(data, statistic, R, sim = "ordinary", stype = c("i", "f", "w"), 
     strata = rep(1,n), L = NULL, m = 0, weights = NULL, 
     ran.gen = function(d, p) d, mle = NULL, simple = FALSE, ...,
     parallel = c("no", "multicore", "snow"),
     ncpus = getOption("boot.ncpus", 1L), cl = NULL)

The central arguments of the function are data, statistic, R, and stype. The data argument is the standard one, as with most R functions. The statistic is the most important argument for the implementation of the boot function and it is this function that will be applied on the bootstrap samples obtained from the data frame. The argument R (and not the software) is used to specify...

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