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Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition Analyze data and build predictive models

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284395
Length 572 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ashish Bhatia Ashish Bhatia
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Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Practical Machine Learning with R FREE CHAPTER 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)

Selecting features using the caret package

The feature selection method searches the subset of features with minimized predictive errors. We can apply feature selection to identify which attributes are required to build an accurate model. The caret package provides a recursive feature elimination function, rfe, which can help automatically select the required features. In the following recipe, we will demonstrate how to use the caret package to perform feature selection.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will continue to use the telecom churn dataset as the input data source for feature selection.

How to do it...

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