Predicting Tire Purchases

Project Objective

To ivestigate the relationship between wetness and noise ratings on purchasing tires

Develop model and Assess Predictor Significance

Step 1: Install and load libraries

library(readxl)
library(Hmisc)
## Warning: package 'Hmisc' was built under R version 4.4.2
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## Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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library(pscl)
## Warning: package 'pscl' was built under R version 4.4.2
## Classes and Methods for R originally developed in the
## Political Science Computational Laboratory
## Department of Political Science
## Stanford University (2002-2015),
## by and under the direction of Simon Jackman.
## hurdle and zeroinfl functions by Achim Zeileis.
if(!require(pROC)) install.packages("pROC")
## Loading required package: pROC
## Warning: package 'pROC' was built under R version 4.4.2
## Type 'citation("pROC")' for a citation.
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## Attaching package: 'pROC'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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library(pROC)

Step 2: Import and clean the data

tire_df <- read_excel(file.choose())
tireratings <- subset(tire_df, select = -c(Tire))

Step 3: Summarize the data

head(tireratings)
## # A tibble: 6 × 4
##     Wet Noise Buy_Again Purchase
##   <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>    <dbl>
## 1   8     7.2       6.1        0
## 2   8     7.2       6.6        1
## 3   7.6   7.5       6.9        1
## 4   6.6   5.4       6.6        0
## 5   5.8   6.3       4          0
## 6   6.3   5.7       4.5        0
Data Description: A description of the features are presented in the table below.
1. Wet: rating for traction in wet conditions
2. Noise: ratings for noise level generated by tires
3. Buy Again: whether they would buy tire again on ten point scale
4. Purchase: did they purchase tire? (yes = 1, no = 0)
summary(tireratings)
##       Wet            Noise         Buy_Again        Purchase     
##  Min.   :4.300   Min.   :3.600   Min.   :1.400   Min.   :0.0000  
##  1st Qu.:6.450   1st Qu.:6.000   1st Qu.:3.850   1st Qu.:0.0000  
##  Median :7.750   Median :7.100   Median :6.150   Median :0.0000  
##  Mean   :7.315   Mean   :6.903   Mean   :5.657   Mean   :0.4412  
##  3rd Qu.:8.225   3rd Qu.:7.925   3rd Qu.:7.400   3rd Qu.:1.0000  
##  Max.   :9.200   Max.   :8.900   Max.   :8.900   Max.   :1.0000
Interpretation: The mean Wet is 7.32 and the mean Noise is 6.9 and the mean Purchase is 0.044 which indicates only about 0.44 proportion bought the tire.

Step 4: Feature selection

corr <- rcorr(as.matrix(tireratings))
corr
##            Wet Noise Buy_Again Purchase
## Wet       1.00  0.76      0.91     0.74
## Noise     0.76  1.00      0.83     0.72
## Buy_Again 0.91  0.83      1.00     0.83
## Purchase  0.74  0.72      0.83     1.00
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## n= 68 
## 
## 
## P
##           Wet Noise Buy_Again Purchase
## Wet            0     0         0      
## Noise      0         0         0      
## Buy_Again  0   0               0      
## Purchase   0   0     0
Interpretation: All the predictors are significant.

Step 5: Build the logistic regression model

model <- glm(Purchase ~ Wet + Noise, data = tireratings, family = binomial)
summary(model)
## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = Purchase ~ Wet + Noise, family = binomial, data = tireratings)
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)   
## (Intercept) -39.4982    12.4779  -3.165  0.00155 **
## Wet           3.3745     1.2641   2.670  0.00760 **
## Noise         1.8163     0.8312   2.185  0.02887 * 
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 93.325  on 67  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 27.530  on 65  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 33.53
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 8
All independent variables were significant (p value < 0.05)

likelihood ratio Test

null_model <- glm(Purchase ~ 1, data = tireratings, family = binomial)

anova(null_model, model, test = "Chisq")
## Analysis of Deviance Table
## 
## Model 1: Purchase ~ 1
## Model 2: Purchase ~ Wet + Noise
##   Resid. Df Resid. Dev Df Deviance  Pr(>Chi)    
## 1        67     93.325                          
## 2        65     27.530  2   65.795 5.162e-15 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Interpretation: The inclusion of Wet and Noise ratings as predictors in our LR model significantly predict the purchase of a tire, relative to the null model

Pseudo R squared

pR2(model)
## fitting null model for pseudo-r2
##         llh     llhNull          G2    McFadden        r2ML        r2CU 
## -13.7649516 -46.6623284  65.7947536   0.7050093   0.6199946   0.8305269
Interpretation: A McFadden R squared of 0.71 means that the model is above the 0.2 - 0.4 range indicate its a useful model

Area under the curve

roc_curve <- roc(tireratings$Purchase, fitted(model))
## Setting levels: control = 0, case = 1
## Setting direction: controls < cases
plot(roc_curve)

auc(roc_curve)
## Area under the curve: 0.9741
Interpretation: An AUC score of 0.97 indicates that the LR model has a high level of accuracy in predicting the purchase of a tire

Predicting with new information

new_data1 <- data.frame(Wet = 8, Noise = 8)
new_data2 <- data.frame(Wet = 7, Noise = 7)

prob1 <- predict(model, newdata = new_data1, type = "response")
prob1 * 100
##        1 
## 88.36964
prob2 <- predict(model, newdata = new_data2, type = "response")
prob2 * 100
##        1 
## 4.058753
Interpretation
1. There is an 88.37% chance of purchasing a tire with wet and noise rating of 8
2. There is a 4.06% chance of purchasing a tire with wet and noise rating of