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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624145
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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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

Interrating agreement

A simple extension of the measures discussed in the previous section on the ensemble classifiers is to compute the measures for all possible pairs of the ensemble and then simply average over all those values. This task constitutes the next exercise.

Exercise: For all possible combinations of ensemble pairs, calculate the disagreement measure, Yule's statistic, correlation coefficient, Cohen's kappa, and the double-fault measure. After doing this, obtain the average of the comparisons and report them as the ensemble diversity.

Here, we will propose alternative measures of diversity and kick-start the discussion with the entropy measure. In all discussions in this section, we will use the oracle outputs.

Entropy measure

You may recall that we denote the oracle outputs according to Entropy measure. For a particular instance, the ensemble is most diverse if the number of classifiers misclassifying it is Entropy measure. This means that Entropy measure of the Entropy measures are 0s, and the rest of the Entropy measure, Entropy measures are 1s. The entropy...

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