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R Programming By Example

You're reading from   R Programming By Example Practical, hands-on projects to help you get started with R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292542
Length 470 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Omar Trejo Navarro Omar Trejo Navarro
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to R 2. Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. Predicting Votes with Linear Models 4. Simulating Sales Data and Working with Databases 5. Communicating Sales with Visualizations 6. Understanding Reviews with Text Analysis 7. Developing Automatic Presentations 8. Object-Oriented System to Track Cryptocurrencies 9. Implementing an Efficient Simple Moving Average 10. Adding Interactivity with Dashboards 11. Required Packages

Measuring accuracy with score functions

Now that we have checked our model's assumptions, we turn toward measuring it's predictive power. To measure our predictive accuracy, we will use two methods, one for numerical data (Proportion) and the other for categorical data (Vote). We know that the Vote variable is a transformation from the Proportion variable, meaning that we are measuring the same information in two different ways. However, both numerical and categorical data are frequently encountered in data analysis, and thus we wanted to show both approaches here. Both functions, score_proportions() (numerical) and score_votes() (categorical) receive the data we use for testing and the predictions for each of the observations in the testing data, which come from the model we built in previous sections.

In the numerical case, score_proportions() computes a score using...

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