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Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Machine Learning with R Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to implementing machine learning techniques from scratch using R 3.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644338
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Wrapper methods

As stated at the beginning of this section, wrapper methods evaluate subsets of variables to detect the possible interactions between variables being a step ahead of the filter methods.

In wrapper methods, several combinations of variables are used in a predictive model and a score is given to each combination according to the model accuracy.

In wrapper methods, a classifier is iteratively trained with multiple combinations of variables acting as a black box, for which the only output is a ranking of important features.

Boruta package

One of the most known wrapper packages in R is called Boruta. This package is mainly based on the algorithm of random forests.

Although this algorithm will be explained in more...

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