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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Chapter 9. Ensembling Regression Models

Chapters 3, Bagging, to Chapters 8, Ensemble Diagnostics, were devoted to learning different types of ensembling methods. The discussion was largely based on the classification problem. If the regressand/output of the supervised learning problem is a numeric variable, then we have a regression problem, which will be addressed here. The housing price problem is selected for demonstration purposes throughout the chapter, and the dataset is chosen from a Kaggle competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/house-prices-advanced-regression-techniques/. The data consists of numerous variables, including as many as 79 independent variables, with the price of the house as the output/dependent variable. The dataset needs some pre-processing as some variables have missing dates, some variables have lots of levels, with a few of them only occurring very rarely, and some variables have missing data in more than 20% of observations.

The pre-processing techniques...

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