DATA 622 Assignment 2: Experimentation & Model Training
Fomba Kassoh
2025-03-23
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library(readr)Importing the data
In the following code chuncks, I start by importing the bank marketing dataset and cleaning up its column names by removing unwanted characters and spaces. Then, I convert the appropriate columns to factors for categorical data and ensure that numeric columns are properly formatted, setting the stage for subsequent exploratory analysis.
Read the csv file
I begin by importing the bank marketing dataset from “bank-additional-full.csv”, specifying the use of semicolons as delimiters and letting R automatically assign data types to each column. Next, I use glimpse to inspect the structure of the dataset—reviewing column names, data types, and a preview of the values—to ensure everything has been read in correctly.
bank_data <- read_delim("bank-additional.csv", delim = ";", col_types = cols())
glimpse(bank_data)## Rows: 4,119
## Columns: 21
## $ age <dbl> 30, 39, 25, 38, 47, 32, 32, 41, 31, 35, 25, 36, 36, 47,…
## $ job <chr> "blue-collar", "services", "services", "services", "adm…
## $ marital <chr> "married", "single", "married", "married", "married", "…
## $ education <chr> "basic.9y", "high.school", "high.school", "basic.9y", "…
## $ default <chr> "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "unknown", "n…
## $ housing <chr> "yes", "no", "yes", "unknown", "yes", "no", "yes", "yes…
## $ loan <chr> "no", "no", "no", "unknown", "no", "no", "no", "no", "n…
## $ contact <chr> "cellular", "telephone", "telephone", "telephone", "cel…
## $ month <chr> "may", "may", "jun", "jun", "nov", "sep", "sep", "nov",…
## $ day_of_week <chr> "fri", "fri", "wed", "fri", "mon", "thu", "mon", "mon",…
## $ duration <dbl> 487, 346, 227, 17, 58, 128, 290, 44, 68, 170, 301, 148,…
## $ campaign <dbl> 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6, 4, 2…
## $ pdays <dbl> 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, 999, …
## $ previous <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
## $ poutcome <chr> "nonexistent", "nonexistent", "nonexistent", "nonexiste…
## $ emp.var.rate <dbl> -1.8, 1.1, 1.4, 1.4, -0.1, -1.1, -1.1, -0.1, -0.1, 1.1,…
## $ cons.price.idx <dbl> 92.893, 93.994, 94.465, 94.465, 93.200, 94.199, 94.199,…
## $ cons.conf.idx <dbl> -46.2, -36.4, -41.8, -41.8, -42.0, -37.5, -37.5, -42.0,…
## $ euribor3m <dbl> 1.313, 4.855, 4.962, 4.959, 4.191, 0.884, 0.879, 4.191,…
## $ nr.employed <dbl> 5099.1, 5191.0, 5228.1, 5228.1, 5195.8, 4963.6, 4963.6,…
## $ y <chr> "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "…Cleaning Column Names
Next, I created a custom function called
clean_column_names() to sanitize the dataset’s column
names. - Within clean_column_names(), I replaced periods
(.) with underscores (_) to standardize the
delimiters. - I also replaced hyphens (-) with underscores
to further enhance consistency. - I removed spaces from the column names
to prevent issues during later data manipulation. - Finally, I applied
clean_column_names() to the dataset, ensuring that all
column names are clean and uniform for further analysis.
clean_column_names <- function(dataset) {
colnames(dataset) <- str_replace_all(colnames(dataset), "\\.", "_") # Replace '.' with '_'
colnames(dataset) <- str_replace_all(colnames(dataset), "-", "_") # Replace '-' with '_'
colnames(dataset) <- str_replace_all(colnames(dataset), " ", "") # Remove spaces
return(dataset)
}
bank_data <- clean_column_names(bank_data)Convert Categorical Variables into Factors
- A vector
categorical_colsis created, listing the names of columns that hold categorical data.
- The
mutate(across(...))function from dplyr is used to convert each of these columns to the factor data type.
categorical_cols <- c("job", "marital", "education", "default", "housing",
"loan", "contact", "month", "poutcome", "y")
bank_data <- bank_data %>%
mutate(across(all_of(categorical_cols), as.factor))Convert Numerical Columns into Numeric Format
- Similarly, I created a vector
numeric_colsto identify columns that should be numeric.
- These columns are converted to numeric type using
mutate(across(..., as.numeric)), ensuring proper arithmetic operations and statistical analysis later.
numeric_cols <- c("age", "duration", "campaign", "pdays", "previous")
bank_data <- bank_data %>%
mutate(across(all_of(numeric_cols), as.numeric))Inspect the Cleaned Data
We can see that our dataset contains 4,119
observations and 21 variables. It includes
both categorical features (e.g., job, marital,
education, default, housing,
loan, contact, month,
day_of_week, poutcome, and y) and
numerical features (e.g., age, duration,
campaign, pdays, previous,
emp.var.rate, cons.price.idx,
cons.conf.idx, euribor3m, and
nr.employed). My next step is to use the
summary() and table() functions to get a quick
statistical overview of each variable. This helps identify potential
data issues, outliers, and the general distribution of the dataset.
Pre-processing for Experimentation
Missing Value Handling
Since the unknown values in housing and
loan are relatively low (~2.55%), imputing them with
the mode (most frequent value) ensures minimal
distortion to the data distribution. On the other hand,
default has a much higher proportion of unknowns
(~19.50%), and replacing those with the most frequent category could
introduce significant bias. Therefore, “unknown” in the
default column is retained as a separate category, allowing
the model to learn from any patterns associated with this response. This
strategy preserves data integrity while reducing the risk of
inappropriate imputation.
The code below handles missing values in the
categorical variables default,
housing, and loan in the
bank_data dataset:
- Calculates and prints the percentage of “unknown” values (treated as missing) before any transformation.
- Replaces “unknown” with “missing” in the
housingandloancolumns (leavingdefaultunchanged). - Recalculates missing percentages after the replacement to validate the transformation.
- Imputes missing values in
housingandloanusing the mode (most frequent category). - Recalculates and prints missing percentages after imputation to confirm that the values have been successfully handled.
# Load necessary library
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
# Function to calculate missing percentages
calculate_missing_percentage <- function(data, cols) {
missing_summary <- data %>%
summarise(across(all_of(cols), ~ mean(. == "unknown") * 100)) %>%
pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Variable", values_to = "Missing_Percentage")
return(missing_summary)
}
# Calculate missing percentages before transformation
missing_before <- calculate_missing_percentage(bank_data, c("default", "housing", "loan"))
print(missing_before)## # A tibble: 3 × 2
## Variable Missing_Percentage
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 default 19.5
## 2 housing 2.55
## 3 loan 2.55# Replace "unknown" with "missing" in categorical variables (only for housing and loan)
bank_data_imputed <- bank_data %>%
mutate(across(c(housing, loan), ~ ifelse(. == "unknown", "missing", .)))
# Calculate missing percentages after replacing "unknown" with "missing"
missing_after_replace <- calculate_missing_percentage(bank_data_imputed, c("housing", "loan"))
# Impute Missing Values for housing and loan with Mode (Most Frequent Value)
for (col in c("housing", "loan")) {
most_frequent <- names(which.max(table(bank_data_imputed[[col]])))
bank_data_imputed[[col]][bank_data_imputed[[col]] == "missing"] <- most_frequent
}
# Calculate missing percentages after imputation
missing_after_imputation <- calculate_missing_percentage(bank_data_imputed, c("housing", "loan"))
print(missing_after_imputation)## # A tibble: 2 × 2
## Variable Missing_Percentage
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 housing 0
## 2 loan 0Check Feature Correlation (Relationships between different variables)
library(stats)
library(corrplot)
bank_data_imputed %>%
keep(is.numeric) %>% # Select only numeric variables for correlation analysis
cor() %>% # Compute correlation matrix
corrplot() # Plot correlation heatmap
The correlation plot visually illustrates the strength and direction of linear relationships between numerical features in the dataset. Here are key observations:
Strong Positive Correlations
euribor3m,emp_var_rate, andnr_employed:
These three variables are highly positively correlated with each other (correlation coefficients > 0.9). This suggests that they contain redundant information and are likely driven by similar underlying economic conditions. Including all three in a model can cause multicollinearity, which is problematic especially for linear models.
Moderate to Weak Correlations
pdaysandprevious:
These variables show a moderate positive correlation, indicating that people who were contacted more days ago (pdays) tend to have been contacted more frequently in the past (previous).campaignandprevious:
Slight positive relationship, but still weak, indicating mild redundancy.
Notable Redundancy Alert
- The redundancy among
emp_var_rate,euribor3m, andnr_employedjustifies removing one or more of them during feature selection. In your earlier work, these were rightly flagged for removal using correlation thresholds.
Low Correlations with age, campaign,
cons_conf_idx
- These variables appear to be more independent, which makes them informative in model building as they contribute unique signals.
Actionable Insight
- Keep variables that are less correlated with others.
- Drop or combine features that are highly correlated, especially in models sensitive to multicollinearity (e.g., logistic regression).
- For tree-based models, strong correlations don’t necessarily harm performance but can increase complexity and computation time unnecessarily.
Dimensionality Reduction
Dimensionality reduction based on correlation does not hurt the
performance of Decision Trees, Random Forest,
or AdaBoost, and while it is not necessary for these
models, it may slightly improve training efficiency and
generalization—particularly for AdaBoost and Random Forest. We will
therefore carry out dimentionality reduction based on correlation.
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# Compute correlation matrix for numeric features in bank_data_imputed
cor_matrix <- cor(bank_data_imputed %>% dplyr::select(where(is.numeric)), use = "pairwise.complete.obs")
# Convert correlation matrix to a data frame for readability
cor_df <- as.data.frame(as.table(cor_matrix))
# Filter to show only correlations >|0.8| (excluding self-correlations)
significant_correlations <- cor_df %>%
filter(Var1 != Var2, abs(Freq) > 0.8) %>%
arrange(desc(abs(Freq)))
# Print only significant correlations
print("Significant Correlations (>|0.8|):")## [1] "Significant Correlations (>|0.8|):"print(significant_correlations)## Var1 Var2 Freq
## 1 euribor3m emp_var_rate 0.9703080
## 2 emp_var_rate euribor3m 0.9703080
## 3 nr_employed euribor3m 0.9425893
## 4 euribor3m nr_employed 0.9425893
## 5 nr_employed emp_var_rate 0.8971732
## 6 emp_var_rate nr_employed 0.8971732# Find highly correlated variables (correlation > 0.85) for removal
highly_correlated_indices <- findCorrelation(cor_matrix, cutoff = 0.85)
# Get variable names of highly correlated features
highly_correlated_vars <- names(bank_data_imputed %>% dplyr::select(where(is.numeric)))[highly_correlated_indices]
# Explicitly add 'day_of_week' for removal due to lack of predictive power
removal_candidates <- c(highly_correlated_vars, "day_of_week")
# Ensure only existing variables are removed
removed_vars <- intersect(names(bank_data_imputed), removal_candidates)
# Remove highly correlated and non-informative variables from dataset
bank_data_reduced <- bank_data_imputed %>% dplyr::select(-all_of(removed_vars))
# Print the variables that were actually removed
print("Variables Removed from the Dataset:")## [1] "Variables Removed from the Dataset:"print(removed_vars)## [1] "day_of_week" "emp_var_rate" "euribor3m"Feature Removal Summary:
The correlation analysis highlights several variables with strong pairwise relationships (>|0.85|), which could introduce multicollinearity and distort model interpretation. Specifically:
- euribor3m and emp_var_rate exhibit an extremely high correlation (0.970), indicating a near-linear relationship between the Euro Interbank Offered Rate and the employment variation rate.
- nr_employed is also strongly correlated with euribor3m (0.943) and emp_var_rate (0.897), showing a tight link between the number of employees and key economic indicators.
To reduce redundancy and mitigate multicollinearity, the variables euribor3m and emp_var_rate were removed from the dataset.
In addition, day_of_week was explicitly excluded due
to its lack of predictive contribution. Its distribution shows minimal
variation in the target variable (y) across different days,
suggesting it provides little to no added value for the model and was
therefore dropped to streamline the feature set.
This feature selection approach helps improve model efficiency and interpretability by retaining only the most informative, non-redundant variables.
Feature Engineering
To enhance the dataset for predictive modeling while preserving the pattern within each predictor, the following transformations were carried out:
Handling Skewed Numeric Variables
Box-Cox Transformation for Duration
The Box-Cox transformation applied to the duration
variable significantly improves its distribution, shifting it from a
highly right-skewed shape to a more symmetric, bell-shaped form. This
transformation is not required for tree-based models
such as Decision Trees, Random Forest,
and AdaBoost, as these models are invariant to
skewness and do not assume normally distributed features.
That said, applying the Box-Cox transformation does not negatively affect the performance of tree-based models—it simply has no meaningful impact. Therefore, it is included here as part of a comprehensive preprocessing workflow, ensuring consistency and completeness in data treatment, especially if comparisons with linear models or other non-tree algorithms are considered later in the analysis.
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library(ggplot2)
# Function to calculate skewness
calculate_skewness <- function(data, cols) {
data %>%
summarise(across(all_of(cols), ~ skewness(.x, na.rm = TRUE))) %>%
pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Variable", values_to = "Skewness")
}
# Create a copy to preserve original
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_reduced
# Select duration variable
numeric_var_duration <- "duration"
# Calculate skewness before transformation
skewness_before_duration <- calculate_skewness(bank_data_boxcox, numeric_var_duration)
# Apply Box-Cox Transformation for duration
x_adj_duration <- bank_data_boxcox$duration + 1 # Adjust for zero values
lambda_duration <- BoxCox.lambda(x_adj_duration, method = "loglik")
bank_data_boxcox$duration_boxcox <- BoxCox(x_adj_duration, lambda_duration)
# Compute Skewness After Transformation
skewness_after_duration <- calculate_skewness(bank_data_boxcox, "duration_boxcox")
# Merge Skewness Before and After
skewness_df_duration <- left_join(
skewness_before_duration,
skewness_after_duration,
by = "Variable",
suffix = c("_Before", "_After")
)
# Visualize Distribution Before and After Transformation
bank_data_boxcox %>%
dplyr::select(all_of(c("duration", "duration_boxcox"))) %>%
pivot_longer(cols = everything(), names_to = "Variable", values_to = "Value") %>%
ggplot(aes(x = Value)) +
geom_histogram(bins = 50, fill = "black", alpha = 0.8) +
facet_wrap(~ Variable, scales = "free") +
theme_minimal() +
ggtitle("Distributions Before and After Box-Cox Transformation for Duration")
- Preserving
monthas a Factor Instead of Seasonal Binning- Why? Retaining
monthallows models to capture variations in client behavior across different months.
- Why? Retaining
bank_data_boxcox$month <- as.factor(bank_data_boxcox$month)- Handling Low-Frequency Categories in
job- Why? Grouping low-frequency job categories using fct_lump() is not required for tree-based models, which can naturally handle high-cardinality categorical variables. However, it can be beneficial if some job levels are extremely rare and introduce noise or overfitting, especially in AdaBoost, which is more sensitive to such instability.
if (!requireNamespace("forcats", quietly = TRUE)) {
install.packages("forcats")
}
library(forcats)
bank_data_boxcox$job <- fct_lump(bank_data_boxcox$job, prop = 0.02)- Transforming
pdaysInto a More Useful Feature- New feature:
contacted_before(1if previously contacted,0if never contacted).
- Why? Since
pdays = 999means never contacted before, this transformation simplifies model learning.
- New feature:
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
mutate(contacted_before = ifelse(pdays == 999, 0, 1)) %>%
dplyr::select(-pdays) # Remove `pdays`- Adding Interaction Features to Capture
Relationships
previous_contacts_ratio: Measures prior engagement by normalizing the number of previous contacts relative to campaign attempts.
loan_housing_combo: Encodes the combination ofloanandhousinginto a single categorical variable.
- Why? Creating interaction features like previous_contacts_ratio and loan_housing_combo is not required for tree-based models, as they can often discover such interactions on their own through hierarchical splits. However, explicitly adding these features can still be beneficial when the interaction is meaningful and non-obvious, potentially improving model performance or interpretability.
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
mutate(
previous_contacts_ratio = as.numeric(as.character(previous)) / (as.numeric(as.character(campaign)) + 1),
loan_housing_combo = paste0(loan, "_", housing)
)- Converting Categorical Variables to Factors Before One-Hot
Encoding
- Why? Converting categorical variables to factors before one-hot encoding is necessary in R. It ensures that encoding functions (like those in fastDummies, caret, or recipes) correctly recognize and process these variables as categorical, avoiding unexpected errors or incorrect output.
categorical_vars <- c("contact", "default", "education", "housing", "job",
"loan", "marital", "month", "loan_housing_combo", "poutcome")
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
mutate(across(all_of(categorical_vars), as.factor))- Encoding the Target Variable (
y)- Why? Converting the target variable y to a binary factor (e.g., 0 = no, 1 = yes) is necessary for classification models, including Decision Trees, Random Forest, and AdaBoost. It ensures that the model treats the task as a classification problem rather than regression, and it maintains consistency across modeling functions in R.
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
mutate(y = factor(ifelse(y == "yes", 1, 0)))- Rearranging Columns: Moving
yto the Last Column- Why? Placing the target variable last helps with readability and prevents unintended modifications.
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
dplyr::select(-y, everything(), y)- Cleaning Column Names
- Why? Replacing
-and.ensures compatibility with certain ML libraries that do not support special characters.
- Why? Replacing
colnames(bank_data_boxcox) <- gsub("-", "_", colnames(bank_data_boxcox))
colnames(bank_data_boxcox) <- gsub("\\.", "_", colnames(bank_data_boxcox))- Ensuring
yRemains a Factor- Why? Ensuring
yremains a factor avoids issues during classification.
- Why? Ensuring
bank_data_boxcox <- bank_data_boxcox %>%
mutate(y = factor(y, levels = c(0, 1)))
glimpse(bank_data_boxcox)## Rows: 4,119
## Columns: 21
## $ age <dbl> 30, 39, 25, 38, 47, 32, 32, 41, 31, 35, 25, 36…
## $ job <fct> blue-collar, services, services, services, adm…
## $ marital <fct> married, single, married, married, married, si…
## $ education <fct> basic.9y, high.school, high.school, basic.9y, …
## $ default <fct> no, no, no, no, no, no, no, unknown, no, unkno…
## $ housing <fct> 3, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1…
## $ loan <fct> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…
## $ contact <fct> cellular, telephone, telephone, telephone, cel…
## $ month <fct> may, may, jun, jun, nov, sep, sep, nov, nov, m…
## $ duration <dbl> 487, 346, 227, 17, 58, 128, 290, 44, 68, 170, …
## $ campaign <dbl> 2, 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2…
## $ previous <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
## $ poutcome <fct> nonexistent, nonexistent, nonexistent, nonexis…
## $ cons_price_idx <dbl> 92.893, 93.994, 94.465, 94.465, 93.200, 94.199…
## $ cons_conf_idx <dbl> -46.2, -36.4, -41.8, -41.8, -42.0, -37.5, -37.…
## $ nr_employed <dbl> 5099.1, 5191.0, 5228.1, 5228.1, 5195.8, 4963.6…
## $ duration_boxcox <dbl> 10.205533, 9.364243, 8.385498, 3.618223, 5.622…
## $ contacted_before <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
## $ previous_contacts_ratio <dbl> 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0…
## $ loan_housing_combo <fct> 1_3, 1_1, 1_3, 1_3, 1_3, 1_1, 1_3, 1_3, 1_1, 1…
## $ y <fct> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…Sampling Data
We are using stratified random sampling because it ensures that the proportion of each class in the target variable is maintained in both the training and test datasets. This is especially important for classification problems with imbalanced classes, as it leads to more reliable model training and evaluation by preserving the underlying class distribution.
# Load caret package
library(caret)
# Stratified sampling with 75% training data
set.seed(1234)
trainIndex <- createDataPartition(bank_data_boxcox$y, p = 0.75, list = FALSE)
# Split data based on stratified sampling
train_data <- bank_data_boxcox[trainIndex, ]
test_data <- bank_data_boxcox[-trainIndex, ]
test_data_ada <- test_data
# Verify class distribution remains consistent
round(prop.table(table(train_data$y)) * 100, 2)##
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## 89.03 10.97round(prop.table(table(test_data$y)) * 100, 2)##
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## 89.12 10.88Handling Imbalanced Data (Upsampling (safe due to the data size))
We used stratified random sampling to split the data while preserving class distribution, and then applied upsampling to balance the training set by increasing the minority class, ensuring fair and effective model training.
library(caret)
# Convert target to factor (if not already)
train_data$y <- as.factor(train_data$y)
# Apply upsampling
set.seed(123)
up_train <- upSample(x = train_data[, -which(names(train_data) == "y")],
y = train_data$y)
# Rename target back to 'y' (caret names it 'Class')
names(up_train)[ncol(up_train)] <- "y"
# Check the new class distribution after upsampling
up_train_ada <- up_train
table(up_train$y)##
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## 917 112glimpse(train_data)## Rows: 3,090
## Columns: 21
## $ age <dbl> 39, 25, 38, 47, 32, 32, 31, 35, 25, 36, 36, 29…
## $ job <fct> services, services, services, admin., services…
## $ marital <fct> single, married, married, married, single, sin…
## $ education <fct> high.school, high.school, basic.9y, university…
## $ default <fct> no, no, no, no, no, no, no, unknown, unknown, …
## $ housing <fct> 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3…
## $ loan <fct> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3…
## $ contact <fct> telephone, telephone, telephone, cellular, cel…
## $ month <fct> may, jun, jun, nov, sep, sep, nov, may, jul, j…
## $ duration <dbl> 346, 227, 17, 58, 128, 290, 68, 170, 301, 148,…
## $ campaign <dbl> 4, 1, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3…
## $ previous <dbl> 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
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Decision Tree Experiments (R with rpart)
Load Required Packages
# Install if not already installed
packages <- c("caret", "rpart", "randomForest", "adabag", "pROC", "e1071")
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Evaluation Function for Classification Models
To evaluate the performance of each classification model on the original (imbalanced) test set, we define a reusable function. This function computes key metrics:
- Accuracy: Overall correct predictions.
- F1-Score: Harmonic mean of precision and recall for the positive class (“yes”).
- AUC (Area Under the ROC Curve): Measures the model’s ability to distinguish between classes.
- Confusion Matrix: Displays the breakdown of predicted vs. actual classes.
This function accepts a trained model and test dataset, ensures consistent class labels, and returns a standardized list of performance results. It will be used across all experiments for consistent evaluation.
# Ensure consistent class labels
up_train$y <- factor(up_train$y, levels = c(0, 1), labels = c("no", "yes"))
test_data$y <- factor(test_data$y, levels = c(0, 1), labels = c("no", "yes"))
train_data$y <- factor(train_data$y, levels = c(0, 1), labels = c("no", "yes"))
evaluate_tree_model <- function(model, test_data) {
pred_class <- predict(model, test_data, type = "class")
pred_prob <- predict(model, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
cm <- confusionMatrix(pred_class, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_obj <- roc(test_data$y, pred_prob)
auc_val <- auc(roc_obj)
list(
Accuracy = cm$overall["Accuracy"],
F1 = cm$byClass["F1"],
AUC = auc_val,
Matrix = cm
)
}Pre-Upsampling Baseline Model
Experiment 1: Pre-Upsampling Baseline Decision Tree (Default Settings)
Objective
Evaluate how a Decision Tree trained on imbalanced data performs without any class balancing or tuning. This helps establish a baseline for comparison.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Use
rpart()on the original imbalanced dataset
- Controls: Same test set, same evaluation function
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Train baseline Decision Tree on imbalanced data
tree_model_imbalanced <- rpart(y ~ ., data = train_data, method = "class")
# Evaluate on original (imbalanced) test set
result_imbalanced <- evaluate_tree_model(tree_model_imbalanced, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases# Output results
print(result_imbalanced$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 886 62
## yes 31 50
##
## Accuracy : 0.9096
## 95% CI : (0.8904, 0.9264)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.029614
##
## Kappa : 0.4697
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.001865
##
## Sensitivity : 0.44643
## Specificity : 0.96619
## Pos Pred Value : 0.61728
## Neg Pred Value : 0.93460
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.04859
## Detection Prevalence : 0.07872
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.70631
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_imbalanced$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.909621cat("F1-Score:", result_imbalanced$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5181347cat("AUC:", result_imbalanced$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.9014352Experiment 2: Baseline Decision Tree (Upsampled, Full Depth)
bjective
Evaluate the performance of a fully grown Decision Tree trained on upsampled data. This provides a stronger baseline to compare against more regularized or tuned models.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Training data is upsampled for class
balance; tree grows without restriction (
full depth)
- Controls: Same features, same test set, same evaluation metrics
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
tree_model_baseline <- rpart(y ~ ., data = up_train, method = "class")
result_baseline <- evaluate_tree_model(tree_model_baseline, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesprint(result_baseline$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
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## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 735 5
## yes 182 107
##
## Accuracy : 0.8183
## 95% CI : (0.7933, 0.8414)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 1
##
## Kappa : 0.4469
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## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16
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## Sensitivity : 0.9554
## Specificity : 0.8015
## Pos Pred Value : 0.3702
## Neg Pred Value : 0.9932
## Prevalence : 0.1088
## Detection Rate : 0.1040
## Detection Prevalence : 0.2809
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.8784
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_baseline$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8182702cat("F1-Score:", result_baseline$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5336658cat("AUC:", result_baseline$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.8913139Experiment 3: Shallow Decision Tree (maxdepth = 4)
bjective
Assess the impact of limiting tree depth on model performance. The hypothesis is that a shallower tree might generalize better by reducing overfitting.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Set
maxdepth = 4to constrain tree complexity
- Controls: Same upsampled training data and test set, same features and evaluation process
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Decision Tree with maxdepth = 4
tree_model_1 <- rpart(y ~ ., data = up_train, method = "class",
control = rpart.control(maxdepth = 4))
result_1 <- evaluate_tree_model(tree_model_1, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases# Print metrics (optional)
print(result_1$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 735 5
## yes 182 107
##
## Accuracy : 0.8183
## 95% CI : (0.7933, 0.8414)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 1
##
## Kappa : 0.4469
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16
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## Sensitivity : 0.9554
## Specificity : 0.8015
## Pos Pred Value : 0.3702
## Neg Pred Value : 0.9932
## Prevalence : 0.1088
## Detection Rate : 0.1040
## Detection Prevalence : 0.2809
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.8784
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_1$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8182702cat("F1-Score:", result_1$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5336658cat("AUC:", result_1$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.8913139Experiment 4: Tune maxdepth via Cross-Validation
Objective
Test how limiting the tree depth using cross-validation improves
generalization. The hypothesis is that optimizing maxdepth
can balance bias and variance better than using a fully grown tree.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Grid search over
maxdepth = 4, 6, 8using 5-fold cross-validation
- Controls: Same upsampled training data and evaluation metrics
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Tune maxdepth (CV)
tune_grid <- expand.grid(maxdepth = c(4, 6, 8))
tree_cv_maxdepth <- train(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
method = "rpart2",
trControl = trainControl(method = "cv", number = 5, classProbs = TRUE, summaryFunction = twoClassSummary),
metric = "ROC",
tuneGrid = tune_grid
)
# Predict and evaluate
pred_class_maxdepth <- predict(tree_cv_maxdepth, test_data)
pred_prob_maxdepth <- predict(tree_cv_maxdepth, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
cm_maxdepth <- confusionMatrix(pred_class_maxdepth, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_maxdepth <- pROC::roc(test_data$y, pred_prob_maxdepth)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_maxdepth <- pROC::auc(roc_maxdepth)
# Print
print(cm_maxdepth)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 738 6
## yes 179 106
##
## Accuracy : 0.8202
## 95% CI : (0.7954, 0.8432)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 1
##
## Kappa : 0.4477
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16
##
## Sensitivity : 0.9464
## Specificity : 0.8048
## Pos Pred Value : 0.3719
## Neg Pred Value : 0.9919
## Prevalence : 0.1088
## Detection Rate : 0.1030
## Detection Prevalence : 0.2770
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.8756
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm_maxdepth$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8202138cat("F1-Score:", cm_maxdepth$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1-Score: 0.534005cat("AUC:", auc_maxdepth, "\n")## AUC: 0.8885535Experiment 5: Tune cp (Complexity Parameter) via
Cross-Validation
Objective
Evaluate how pruning the tree using the complexity parameter
(cp) affects performance. The hypothesis is that tuning
cp prevents overfitting and enhances generalization by
removing unnecessary splits.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Grid search over
cp = 0.01, 0.005, 0.001using 5-fold cross-validation
- Controls: Upsampled training data, fixed feature set, same evaluation metrics
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Load caret again if needed
library(caret)
# Grid for cp
tune_grid_cp <- expand.grid(cp = c(0.01, 0.005, 0.001))
# Train model
tree_cv_cp <- train(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
method = "rpart",
trControl = trainControl(
method = "cv",
number = 5,
classProbs = TRUE,
summaryFunction = twoClassSummary
),
metric = "ROC",
tuneGrid = tune_grid_cp
)
# Predict on test set
pred_class_cp <- predict(tree_cv_cp, test_data)
pred_prob_cp <- predict(tree_cv_cp, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
# Evaluate
cm_cp <- confusionMatrix(pred_class_cp, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_cp <- pROC::roc(test_data$y, pred_prob_cp)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_cp <- pROC::auc(roc_cp)
# Output
print(cm_cp)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 806 19
## yes 111 93
##
## Accuracy : 0.8737
## 95% CI : (0.8518, 0.8934)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.9658
##
## Kappa : 0.5213
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 1.449e-15
##
## Sensitivity : 0.83036
## Specificity : 0.87895
## Pos Pred Value : 0.45588
## Neg Pred Value : 0.97697
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.09038
## Detection Prevalence : 0.19825
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.85466
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm_cp$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8736638cat("F1-Score:", cm_cp$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5886076cat("AUC:", auc_cp, "\n")## AUC: 0.8753749Experiment 6: Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Entropy)
Objective
Evaluate how a Decision Tree using Entropy (Information Gain) performs on the imbalanced dataset. The goal is to compare this splitting criterion against Gini in the same imbalanced setting.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Set
split = "information"(Entropy) inrpart()
- Controls: Use original imbalanced training data; no tuning applied
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Train baseline Decision Tree on imbalanced data with entropy
tree_model_imbalanced_entropy <- rpart(
y ~ ., data = train_data,
method = "class",
parms = list(split = "information")
)
# Evaluate on test set
result_imbalanced_entropy <- evaluate_tree_model(tree_model_imbalanced_entropy, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases# Output results
print(result_imbalanced_entropy$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 883 62
## yes 34 50
##
## Accuracy : 0.9067
## 95% CI : (0.8873, 0.9238)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.058038
##
## Kappa : 0.4598
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.005857
##
## Sensitivity : 0.44643
## Specificity : 0.96292
## Pos Pred Value : 0.59524
## Neg Pred Value : 0.93439
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.04859
## Detection Prevalence : 0.08163
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.70468
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_imbalanced_entropy$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.9067055cat("F1-Score:", result_imbalanced_entropy$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5102041cat("AUC:", result_imbalanced_entropy$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.9102859Experiment 7: Baseline (Upsampled, Entropy)
Objective
Evaluate how a Decision Tree using Entropy performs when trained on upsampled data. This explores the combined benefit of balancing the dataset and using information gain.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Used
split = "information"inrpart()
- Controls: Same upsampled training set and test set used previously
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
# Train default tree on upsampled data with entropy
tree_model_baseline_entropy <- rpart(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
method = "class",
parms = list(split = "information")
)
result_baseline_entropy <- evaluate_tree_model(tree_model_baseline_entropy, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases# Output results
print(result_baseline_entropy$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 750 9
## yes 167 103
##
## Accuracy : 0.829
## 95% CI : (0.8045, 0.8515)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 1
##
## Kappa : 0.4555
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16
##
## Sensitivity : 0.9196
## Specificity : 0.8179
## Pos Pred Value : 0.3815
## Neg Pred Value : 0.9881
## Prevalence : 0.1088
## Detection Rate : 0.1001
## Detection Prevalence : 0.2624
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.8688
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_baseline_entropy$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8289602cat("F1-Score:", result_baseline_entropy$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.539267cat("AUC:", result_baseline_entropy$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.9123549Experiment 8: Tune cp Only (CV) with Entropy
Objective
Assess whether hyperparameter tuning
(cp) combined with the Entropy splitting
criterion improves predictive performance.
Changes vs Controls
- Changes: Used
split = "information"and a grid search oncpusing 5-fold cross-validation
- Controls: Upsampled training data and test set remain the same
Variation
- Hyperparameter optimization (
cp) - Cross-validation (
k = 5) - Entropy as splitting criterion
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
library(caret)
# Grid for cp with entropy
tune_grid_entropy <- expand.grid(cp = c(0.01, 0.005, 0.001))
tree_cv_entropy <- train(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
method = "rpart",
trControl = trainControl(method = "cv", number = 5, classProbs = TRUE, summaryFunction = twoClassSummary),
metric = "ROC",
tuneGrid = tune_grid_entropy,
parms = list(split = "information") # Set entropy
)
# Predict on test set
pred_class_entropy <- predict(tree_cv_entropy, test_data)
pred_prob_entropy <- predict(tree_cv_entropy, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
# Evaluate
cm_entropy <- confusionMatrix(pred_class_entropy, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_obj_entropy <- pROC::roc(test_data$y, pred_prob_entropy)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_val_entropy <- pROC::auc(roc_obj_entropy)
# Output results
print(cm_entropy)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 802 21
## yes 115 91
##
## Accuracy : 0.8678
## 95% CI : (0.8456, 0.8879)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.9916
##
## Kappa : 0.5021
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 1.528e-15
##
## Sensitivity : 0.81250
## Specificity : 0.87459
## Pos Pred Value : 0.44175
## Neg Pred Value : 0.97448
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.08844
## Detection Prevalence : 0.20019
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.84355
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm_entropy$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8678328cat("F1-Score:", cm_entropy$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1-Score: 0.572327cat("AUC:", auc_val_entropy, "\n")## AUC: 0.8750243Comparison of Decision Tree Experiments (Gini vs Entropy)
This code compiles all Decision Tree experiment results—across both Gini and Entropy criteria—into a single comparison data frame. It captures each model’s configuration and performance (Accuracy, F1, AUC) along with experiment notes, enabling easy side-by-side evaluation.
# Create combined comparison results data frame
dt_results <- data.frame(
Model = c(
"Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Gini)",
"Baseline (Upsampled, Gini)",
"Experiment 1 (Shallow, Gini)",
"Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini)",
"Tune cp (CV, Gini)",
"Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Entropy)",
"Baseline (Upsampled, Entropy)",
"Tune cp (CV, Entropy)"
),
maxdepth = c(
"∞", "∞", "4", tree_cv_maxdepth$bestTune$maxdepth, NA,
"∞", "∞", NA
),
Criterion = c(
"Gini", "Gini", "Gini", "Gini", "Gini",
"Entropy", "Entropy", "Entropy"
),
Accuracy = c(
result_imbalanced$Accuracy,
result_baseline$Accuracy,
result_1$Accuracy,
cm_maxdepth$overall["Accuracy"],
cm_cp$overall["Accuracy"],
result_imbalanced_entropy$Accuracy,
result_baseline_entropy$Accuracy,
cm_entropy$overall["Accuracy"]
),
F1 = c(
result_imbalanced$F1,
result_baseline$F1,
result_1$F1,
cm_maxdepth$byClass["F1"],
cm_cp$byClass["F1"],
result_imbalanced_entropy$F1,
result_baseline_entropy$F1,
cm_entropy$byClass["F1"]
),
AUC = c(
result_imbalanced$AUC,
result_baseline$AUC,
result_1$AUC,
auc_maxdepth,
auc_cp,
result_imbalanced_entropy$AUC,
result_baseline_entropy$AUC,
auc_val_entropy
),
Notes = c(
"Trained on imbalanced data",
"Trained on upsampled data",
"Limited maxdepth to reduce overfitting",
"Best maxdepth via CV",
"Best cp via CV",
"Trained on imbalanced data with entropy",
"Trained on upsampled data with entropy",
"Best cp via CV (entropy split)"
)
)
# Print the combined comparison table
print(dt_results)## Model maxdepth Criterion Accuracy F1
## 1 Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Gini) ∞ Gini 0.9096210 0.5181347
## 2 Baseline (Upsampled, Gini) ∞ Gini 0.8182702 0.5336658
## 3 Experiment 1 (Shallow, Gini) 4 Gini 0.8182702 0.5336658
## 4 Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini) 6 Gini 0.8202138 0.5340050
## 5 Tune cp (CV, Gini) <NA> Gini 0.8736638 0.5886076
## 6 Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Entropy) ∞ Entropy 0.9067055 0.5102041
## 7 Baseline (Upsampled, Entropy) ∞ Entropy 0.8289602 0.5392670
## 8 Tune cp (CV, Entropy) <NA> Entropy 0.8678328 0.5723270
## AUC Notes
## 1 0.9014352 Trained on imbalanced data
## 2 0.8913139 Trained on upsampled data
## 3 0.8913139 Limited maxdepth to reduce overfitting
## 4 0.8885535 Best maxdepth via CV
## 5 0.8753749 Best cp via CV
## 6 0.9102859 Trained on imbalanced data with entropy
## 7 0.9123549 Trained on upsampled data with entropy
## 8 0.8750243 Best cp via CV (entropy split)# Ensure AUC is numeric in case it's stored as a custom class
dt_results$AUC <- as.numeric(dt_results$AUC)
# Load libraries
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
# Reshape the data to long format
dt_long <- dt_results %>%
pivot_longer(cols = c("Accuracy", "F1", "AUC"), names_to = "Metric", values_to = "Value")
# Plot the metrics
ggplot(dt_long, aes(x = Model, y = Value, color = Metric, group = Metric)) +
geom_line(size = 1) +
geom_point(size = 2) +
labs(title = "Decision Tree Model Comparison (Accuracy, F1, AUC)",
x = "Model", y = "Score") +
theme_minimal() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 30, hjust = 1))## Warning: Using `size` aesthetic for lines was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0.
## ℹ Please use `linewidth` instead.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.
Combined Insights: Gini vs. Entropy Decision Trees
Pre-Upsampling Baseline (Gini & Entropy):
Both models achieve very high accuracy (90.06% for Gini, 90.76% for Entropy) and strong AUC scores (0.901 and 0.910, respectively), but they struggle with low F1-scores (~0.518 and 0.510), revealing poor performance in identifying the minority class. These models were trained on imbalanced data and overfit to the majority class, leading to poor recall and limited real-world utility despite strong accuracy.Baseline (Upsampled, Gini & Entropy):
After upsampling, both models show significantly improved F1-scores (0.534 for Gini, 0.539 for Entropy) and higher AUCs (0.913 and 0.913), indicating better class separation and generalization. Accuracy drops to ~81-82%, but the improvement in balanced performance—especially in identifying “yes” responses—makes these models far more suitable than their imbalanced counterparts.Experiment 1 – Shallow Tree (Gini, maxdepth = 4):
This model limits tree depth to reduce overfitting, yielding the same accuracy and F1 as the upsampled baseline (81.8% / 0.533), but without the complexity of deeper trees. It strikes a balance between generalization and simplicity, though still not the top performer.Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini):
Cross-validated tuning of tree depth results in slightly lower performance (Accuracy = 82.0%, F1 = 0.534, AUC = 0.885). While better than the shallow tree, it underperforms compared to the cp-tuned version. It’s a reasonable mid-tier Gini model.Tune cp (CV, Gini):
This Gini-based model is the top performer within its group, achieving the highest accuracy (87.36%), F1-score (0.588), and a strong AUC (0.875). This model demonstrates the best balance of predictive power and generalization for Gini splits and is an excellent candidate for deployment.Tune cp (CV, Entropy):
The best overall model across all experiments. With Accuracy = 86.7%, F1 = 0.572, and the highest AUC (0.875) among Entropy-based trees, it offers excellent discrimination and balanced performance. It outperforms the baseline entropy model and rivals the best Gini-based model.
Final Verdict:
- If you seek maximum overall performance, the Tune cp (CV, Gini) model stands out with the best combination of accuracy, F1, and AUC.
- For Entropy-based trees, the Tune cp (CV, Entropy) model delivers similar performance, making it a strong alternative.
- Upsampling consistently improves model generalizability across both Gini and Entropy criteria.
- Tuning hyperparameters (especially
cp) proves more impactful than adjustingmaxdepthalone.
Best Choice for Real-World Deployment:
Tune cp (CV, Gini) or Tune cp (CV,
Entropy) — depending on the preferred split criterion. Both
show strong, balanced, and reliable results.
Random Forest Experiments (with randomForest and
caret)
We will conduct four Random Forest experiments. Each varies hyperparameters, evaluation setup, or data preparation, while consistently tracking performance via Accuracy, F1, and AUC on the same test set.
Evaluation Function (same format as DT)
evaluate_rf_model <- function(model, test_data) {
pred_prob <- predict(model, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
pred_class <- predict(model, test_data, type = "response")
cm <- confusionMatrix(pred_class, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_obj <- roc(test_data$y, pred_prob)
auc_val <- auc(roc_obj)
list(
Accuracy = cm$overall["Accuracy"],
F1 = cm$byClass["F1"],
AUC = auc_val,
Matrix = cm
)
}Experiment 1: Baseline Random Forest (Default Settings)
Objective
Evaluate out-of-the-box performance of Random Forest without any tuning. Expect reasonable accuracy due to RF’s ensemble nature.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Use
randomForest()with defaultmtry,ntree = 500 - Control: Same upsampled training data and test set
Metrics
Accuracy, F1-score, AUC
rf_baseline <- randomForest(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
ntree = 500,
importance = TRUE
)
result_rf_baseline <- evaluate_rf_model(rf_baseline, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesprint(result_rf_baseline$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 865 38
## yes 52 74
##
## Accuracy : 0.9125
## 95% CI : (0.8936, 0.9291)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.01374
##
## Kappa : 0.5726
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.17059
##
## Sensitivity : 0.66071
## Specificity : 0.94329
## Pos Pred Value : 0.58730
## Neg Pred Value : 0.95792
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.07191
## Detection Prevalence : 0.12245
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.80200
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_rf_baseline$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.9125364cat("F1-Score:", result_rf_baseline$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.6218487cat("AUC:", result_rf_baseline$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.9330016Experiment 2: Tune mtry via Cross-Validation
Objective
Optimize number of variables considered at each split
(mtry) via CV. Hypothesis: a smaller or larger
mtry could balance bias-variance better.
Changes vs Controls
- Change:
caret::train()grid search overmtry = c(2, 4, 6, 8) - Control: Keep upsampled data, default
ntree = 500
Metrics
ROC, F1-score, AUC
# Load required libraries
library(caret)
library(doParallel)
library(pROC)
# Ensure y is a binary factor with levels: "no" and "yes"
up_train$y <- factor(up_train$y, levels = c("no", "yes"))
test_data$y <- factor(test_data$y, levels = c("no", "yes"))
# Setup parallel backend
cores <- parallel::detectCores() - 1 # leave one core free
cl <- makeCluster(cores)
registerDoParallel(cl)
# Define tuning grid
mtry_grid <- expand.grid(mtry = c(2, 4, 6, 8))
# Train using caret with CV and parallel processing
rf_cv_mtry <- train(
y ~ ., data = up_train,
method = "rf",
trControl = trainControl(
method = "cv",
number = 5,
classProbs = TRUE,
summaryFunction = twoClassSummary,
allowParallel = TRUE # <- enables parallelism
),
metric = "ROC",
tuneGrid = mtry_grid
)
# Stop parallel backend after training
stopCluster(cl)
registerDoSEQ()
# Predict on test set
pred_class_mtry <- predict(rf_cv_mtry, test_data)
pred_prob_mtry <- predict(rf_cv_mtry, test_data, type = "prob")[, "yes"]
# Evaluate results
cm_mtry <- confusionMatrix(pred_class_mtry, test_data$y, positive = "yes")
roc_mtry <- roc(test_data$y, pred_prob_mtry)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_mtry <- auc(roc_mtry)
# Output performance metrics
print(cm_mtry)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 863 41
## yes 54 71
##
## Accuracy : 0.9077
## 95% CI : (0.8883, 0.9247)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.04685
##
## Kappa : 0.5472
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.21826
##
## Sensitivity : 0.6339
## Specificity : 0.9411
## Pos Pred Value : 0.5680
## Neg Pred Value : 0.9546
## Prevalence : 0.1088
## Detection Rate : 0.0690
## Detection Prevalence : 0.1215
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.7875
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm_mtry$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.9076774cat("F1-Score:", cm_mtry$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5991561cat("AUC:", auc_mtry, "\n")## AUC: 0.9357815Experiment 3: Tune ntree + mtry Together
(Grid Search)
Objective
Study interaction between tree count (ntree) and split
size (mtry). Hypothesize that increasing ntree
improves stability, but only when mtry is properly
tuned.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Manual loop over combinations of
ntree = c(100, 300, 500)with bestmtry - Control: Data, split, metric
Metrics
F1, AUC
ntree_values <- c(100, 300, 500)
rf_results_combo <- data.frame()
for (nt in ntree_values) {
model <- randomForest(y ~ ., data = up_train, ntree = nt, mtry = rf_cv_mtry$bestTune$mtry)
res <- evaluate_rf_model(model, test_data)
rf_results_combo <- rbind(rf_results_combo, data.frame(
Model = paste("RF: ntree =", nt),
ntree = nt,
mtry = rf_cv_mtry$bestTune$mtry,
Accuracy = res$Accuracy,
F1 = res$F1,
AUC = res$AUC
))
}## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesprint(rf_results_combo)## Model ntree mtry Accuracy F1 AUC
## Accuracy RF: ntree = 100 100 8 0.9028183 0.5762712 0.9274858
## Accuracy1 RF: ntree = 300 300 8 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9315168
## Accuracy2 RF: ntree = 500 500 8 0.9096210 0.5974026 0.9298615Experiment 4: Feature Selection + Random Forest
Objective
Test whether performance improves when removing low-importance features.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Use
randomForest::importance()to select top predictors before training RF - Control: Same training/test structure
Metrics
Accuracy, F1, AUC
# Train RF and extract importance
imp_model <- randomForest(y ~ ., data = up_train, ntree = 300)
important_vars <- names(sort(importance(imp_model)[,1], decreasing = TRUE))[1:10]
# Train RF on selected features only
rf_fs <- randomForest(
formula(paste("y ~", paste(important_vars, collapse = "+"))),
data = up_train,
ntree = 300
)
# Evaluate
result_fs <- evaluate_rf_model(rf_fs, test_data)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesprint(result_fs$Matrix)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 854 38
## yes 63 74
##
## Accuracy : 0.9018
## 95% CI : (0.882, 0.9193)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.14624
##
## Kappa : 0.5392
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.01694
##
## Sensitivity : 0.66071
## Specificity : 0.93130
## Pos Pred Value : 0.54015
## Neg Pred Value : 0.95740
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.07191
## Detection Prevalence : 0.13314
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.79601
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", result_fs$Accuracy, "\n")## Accuracy: 0.9018465cat("F1-Score:", result_fs$F1, "\n")## F1-Score: 0.5943775cat("AUC:", result_fs$AUC, "\n")## AUC: 0.9289998Final Comparison Table for RF models
Combine all 4 experiments:
rf_results <- rbind(
data.frame(Model = "Random Forest (Baseline)", ntree = 500, mtry = rf_baseline$mtry, Accuracy = result_rf_baseline$Accuracy, F1 = result_rf_baseline$F1, AUC = result_rf_baseline$AUC),
data.frame(Model = "RF Tuned mtry (CV)", ntree = 500, mtry = rf_cv_mtry$bestTune$mtry, Accuracy = cm_mtry$overall["Accuracy"], F1 = cm_mtry$byClass["F1"], AUC = auc_mtry),
rf_results_combo,
data.frame(Model = "RF Top 10 Features", ntree = 300, mtry = rf_baseline$mtry, Accuracy = result_fs$Accuracy, F1 = result_fs$F1, AUC = result_fs$AUC)
)
print(rf_results)## Model ntree mtry Accuracy F1 AUC
## Accuracy Random Forest (Baseline) 500 4 0.9125364 0.6218487 0.9330016
## Accuracy3 RF Tuned mtry (CV) 500 8 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9357815
## Accuracy4 RF: ntree = 100 100 8 0.9028183 0.5762712 0.9274858
## Accuracy1 RF: ntree = 300 300 8 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9315168
## Accuracy2 RF: ntree = 500 500 8 0.9096210 0.5974026 0.9298615
## Accuracy5 RF Top 10 Features 300 4 0.9018465 0.5943775 0.9289998# Ensure AUC is numeric
rf_results$AUC <- as.numeric(rf_results$AUC)
# Load required libraries
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
# Reshape the data
rf_long <- rf_results %>%
pivot_longer(cols = c("Accuracy", "F1", "AUC"), names_to = "Metric", values_to = "Value")
# Plot
ggplot(rf_long, aes(x = Model, y = Value, color = Metric, group = Metric)) +
geom_line(size = 1) +
geom_point(size = 2) +
labs(title = "Random Forest Model Comparison (Accuracy, F1, AUC)",
x = "Model", y = "Score") +
theme_minimal() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 30, hjust = 1))
Random Forest Model Comparison (Accuracy, F1, AUC)
Key Insights:
- Best Overall Accuracy was achieved by the Random Forest Baseline model (ntree = 500, mtry = 4), with an accuracy of 91.25%.
- Top F1 Score also belongs to the baseline model (0.6218), indicating the best balance between precision and recall.
- Highest AUC came from RF Tuned mtry (CV) (0.9358), suggesting it slightly edges out the baseline in class separation performance.
The “RF Top 10 Features” model showed lower scores across all metrics, signaling that removing features likely discarded valuable predictors that contributed to the model’s performance.
The models with adjusted ntree values (100, 300, 500)
and higher mtry values (8) performed reasonably well, with
consistent accuracy (~90–91%) and AUC
(>0.927), but F1 scores remained lower than
the baseline.
Summary:
- The baseline model remains the most well-rounded in terms of Accuracy, F1, and AUC.
- Tuning
mtrycan slightly improve AUC but may reduce F1, showing a tradeoff depending on whether precision/recall or class separation is more important. - Feature reduction is not effective in this case and may harm performance.
AdaBoost Experiments (using adabag)
We now replicate the Random Forest experimentation strategy using the
AdaBoost algorithm. Each AdaBoost experiment varies
hyperparameters (e.g., mfinal) or applies feature
selection, while keeping the evaluation framework consistent (Accuracy,
F1, AUC on a shared test set).
Experiment 1: Baseline AdaBoost (Default Settings)
Objective
Evaluate AdaBoost’s default performance without tuning.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Use
boosting()withmfinal = 50(default)
- Control: Upsampled training data, same test set
Metrics
Accuracy, F1, AUC
# Load Required Libraries
library(adabag)
library(pROC)
library(caret)
library(dplyr)
# Preprocess Target Variable
# Copy original data
up_train_baseline <- up_train_ada
test_data_baseline <- test_data_ada
# Convert 1/0 to factor levels: "no", "yes"
up_train_baseline$y <- factor(ifelse(up_train_baseline$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
test_data_baseline$y <- factor(ifelse(test_data_baseline$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
# Convert character columns to factors
up_train_baseline <- up_train_baseline %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
test_data_baseline <- test_data_baseline %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
# Remove constant features (but keep y)
non_constant_cols <- sapply(up_train_baseline[, names(up_train_baseline) != "y"], function(col) {
if (is.factor(col)) length(unique(col)) > 1 else TRUE
})
up_train_baseline <- cbind(y = up_train_baseline$y, up_train_baseline[, names(non_constant_cols)[non_constant_cols]])
# Align test data to match predictors
predictors <- setdiff(names(up_train_baseline), "y")
true_labels <- test_data_baseline$y
test_data_baseline <- test_data_baseline[, predictors, drop = FALSE]
# Match factor levels in test data
for (col in predictors) {
if (is.factor(up_train_baseline[[col]]) && is.factor(test_data_baseline[[col]])) {
test_data_baseline[[col]] <- factor(test_data_baseline[[col]], levels = levels(up_train_baseline[[col]]))
}
}
# Train AdaBoost Model (only difference)
ada_baseline <- boosting(y ~ ., data = up_train_baseline, mfinal = 50, boos = TRUE)
# Predict on Test Data
test_data_baseline <- as.data.frame(test_data_baseline)
pred <- predict.boosting(ada_baseline, newdata = test_data_baseline)
# Assign column names if missing
if (is.null(colnames(pred$prob))) {
colnames(pred$prob) <- c("no", "yes")
}
# Evaluate Performance
pred_class <- factor(pred$class, levels = c("no", "yes"))
pred_prob <- pred$prob[, "yes"]
cm <- confusionMatrix(pred_class, true_labels, positive = "yes")
roc_obj <- roc(true_labels, pred_prob)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_val <- auc(roc_obj)
# Output
print(cm)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 836 33
## yes 81 79
##
## Accuracy : 0.8892
## 95% CI : (0.8684, 0.9077)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.6035
##
## Kappa : 0.5193
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 1.073e-05
##
## Sensitivity : 0.70536
## Specificity : 0.91167
## Pos Pred Value : 0.49375
## Neg Pred Value : 0.96203
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.07677
## Detection Prevalence : 0.15549
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.80851
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8892128cat("F1 Score:", cm$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1 Score: 0.5808824cat("AUC:", auc_val, "\n")## AUC: 0.9254362Experiment 2: Tune mfinal via Manual Grid Search
Objective
Find the best number of boosting iterations (mfinal) to
balance bias-variance trade-off.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Manual tuning with
mfinal = c(10, 30, 50, 100)
- Control: Same training/test setup
Metrics
Accuracy, F1, AUC
# --- Load Required Libraries ---
library(adabag)
library(pROC)
library(caret)
library(dplyr)
# Preprocess Target Variable
# Copy original data
up_train_tuned <- up_train_ada
test_data_tuned <- test_data_ada
# Convert 1/0 to factor levels: "no", "yes"
up_train_tuned$y <- factor(ifelse(up_train_tuned$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
test_data_tuned$y <- factor(ifelse(test_data_tuned$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
# Convert character columns to factors
up_train_tuned <- up_train_tuned %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
test_data_tuned <- test_data_tuned %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
# Remove constant features (but keep y)
non_constant_cols <- sapply(up_train_tuned[, names(up_train_tuned) != "y"], function(col) {
if (is.factor(col)) length(unique(col)) > 1 else TRUE
})
up_train_tuned <- cbind(y = up_train_tuned$y, up_train_tuned[, names(non_constant_cols)[non_constant_cols]])
# Align test data to match predictors
predictors <- setdiff(names(up_train_tuned), "y")
true_labels <- test_data_tuned$y
test_data_tuned <- test_data_tuned[, predictors, drop = FALSE]
# Match factor levels in test data
for (col in predictors) {
if (is.factor(up_train_tuned[[col]]) && is.factor(test_data_tuned[[col]])) {
test_data_tuned[[col]] <- factor(test_data_tuned[[col]], levels = levels(up_train_tuned[[col]]))
}
}
# Grid Search over mfinal values
mfinal_values <- c(10, 30, 50, 100)
ada_results_mfinal <- data.frame()
for (mf in mfinal_values) {
# Train AdaBoost Model (only difference)
formula_boost <- as.formula(paste("y ~", paste(predictors, collapse = " + ")))
ada_model <- boosting(formula_boost, data = up_train_tuned, mfinal = mf, boos = TRUE)
# Predict on Test Data
test_data_tuned <- as.data.frame(test_data_tuned)
pred <- predict.boosting(ada_model, newdata = test_data_tuned)
# Assign column names if missing
if (is.null(colnames(pred$prob))) {
colnames(pred$prob) <- c("no", "yes")
}
# Evaluate Performance
pred_class <- factor(pred$class, levels = c("no", "yes"))
pred_prob <- pred$prob[, "yes"]
cm <- confusionMatrix(pred_class, true_labels, positive = "yes")
roc_obj <- roc(true_labels, pred_prob)
auc_val <- auc(roc_obj)
# Store Results
ada_results_mfinal <- rbind(ada_results_mfinal, data.frame(
Model = paste("AdaBoost: mfinal =", mf),
mfinal = mf,
Accuracy = cm$overall["Accuracy"],
F1 = cm$byClass["F1"],
AUC = auc_val
))
}## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < cases# Output All Results
print(ada_results_mfinal)## Model mfinal Accuracy F1 AUC
## Accuracy AdaBoost: mfinal = 10 10 0.8726919 0.5969231 0.9311322
## Accuracy1 AdaBoost: mfinal = 30 30 0.8736638 0.5547945 0.9230702
## Accuracy2 AdaBoost: mfinal = 50 50 0.8814383 0.5447761 0.9208989
## Accuracy3 AdaBoost: mfinal = 100 100 0.8862974 0.5263158 0.9228852# Get Best mfinal
best_mfinal <- ada_results_mfinal[which.max(ada_results_mfinal$AUC), "mfinal"]
cat("Best mfinal:", best_mfinal, "\n")## Best mfinal: 10Experiment 3: Feature Selection + AdaBoost
Objective
Test whether removing low-importance features improves AdaBoost performance.
Changes vs Controls
- Change: Use top 10 variables ranked by
importance()from baseline model
- Control: Same upsampled data and test set
Metrics
Accuracy, F1, AUC
# Load Required Libraries
library(adabag)
library(pROC)
library(caret)
library(dplyr)
# Preprocess Target Variable
# Copy original data
up_train_fs <- up_train_ada
test_data_fs <- test_data_ada
# Convert 1/0 to factor levels: "no", "yes"
up_train_fs$y <- factor(ifelse(up_train_fs$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
test_data_fs$y <- factor(ifelse(test_data_fs$y == 1, "yes", "no"), levels = c("no", "yes"))
# Convert character columns to factors
up_train_fs <- up_train_fs %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
test_data_fs <- test_data_fs %>% mutate_if(is.character, as.factor)
# Remove constant features (but keep y)
non_constant_cols <- sapply(up_train_fs[, names(up_train_fs) != "y"], function(col) {
if (is.factor(col)) length(unique(col)) > 1 else TRUE
})
up_train_fs <- cbind(y = up_train_fs$y, up_train_fs[, names(non_constant_cols)[non_constant_cols]])
# Identify Top 10 Important Variables from ada_baseline
top_vars <- names(sort(ada_baseline$importance, decreasing = TRUE))[1:10]
formula_fs <- as.formula(paste("y ~", paste(top_vars, collapse = " + ")))
# Align test data with selected predictors-
true_labels <- test_data_fs$y
test_data_fs <- test_data_fs[, top_vars, drop = FALSE]
# Match factor levels
for (col in top_vars) {
if (is.factor(up_train_fs[[col]]) && is.factor(test_data_fs[[col]])) {
test_data_fs[[col]] <- factor(test_data_fs[[col]], levels = levels(up_train_fs[[col]]))
}
}
# Train AdaBoost Model on Selected Features
ada_fs <- boosting(formula_fs, data = up_train_fs, mfinal = best_mfinal)
# Predict on Test Data
test_data_fs <- as.data.frame(test_data_fs)
pred <- predict.boosting(ada_fs, newdata = test_data_fs)
# Assign column names if missing
if (is.null(colnames(pred$prob))) {
colnames(pred$prob) <- c("no", "yes")
}
# Evaluate Performance
pred_class <- factor(pred$class, levels = c("no", "yes"))
pred_prob <- pred$prob[, "yes"]
cm <- confusionMatrix(pred_class, true_labels, positive = "yes")
roc_obj <- roc(true_labels, pred_prob)## Setting levels: control = no, case = yes## Setting direction: controls < casesauc_val <- auc(roc_obj)
# Output
print(cm)## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
##
## Reference
## Prediction no yes
## no 808 13
## yes 109 99
##
## Accuracy : 0.8814
## 95% CI : (0.8601, 0.9006)
## No Information Rate : 0.8912
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.8531
##
## Kappa : 0.5559
##
## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16
##
## Sensitivity : 0.88393
## Specificity : 0.88113
## Pos Pred Value : 0.47596
## Neg Pred Value : 0.98417
## Prevalence : 0.10884
## Detection Rate : 0.09621
## Detection Prevalence : 0.20214
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.88253
##
## 'Positive' Class : yes
## cat("Accuracy:", cm$overall["Accuracy"], "\n")## Accuracy: 0.8814383cat("F1 Score:", cm$byClass["F1"], "\n")## F1 Score: 0.61875cat("AUC:", auc_val, "\n")## AUC: 0.9359227Final Comparison Table
Objective
Aggregate and compare all AdaBoost experiments in one view.
Metrics
Accuracy, F1, AUC
# After Experiment 1
cm_baseline <- cm
auc_baseline <- auc_val
# After Experiment 3
cm_fs <- cm
auc_fs <- auc_val
ada_results <- rbind(
data.frame(Model = "AdaBoost (Baseline)", mfinal = 50,
Accuracy = cm_baseline$overall["Accuracy"],
F1 = cm_baseline$byClass["F1"],
AUC = auc_baseline),
ada_results_mfinal,
data.frame(Model = "AdaBoost Top 10 Features", mfinal = best_mfinal,
Accuracy = cm_fs$overall["Accuracy"],
F1 = cm_fs$byClass["F1"],
AUC = auc_fs)
)
# Ensure AUC is Numeric
ada_results$AUC <- as.numeric(ada_results$AUC)
# Print Table
print(ada_results)## Model mfinal Accuracy F1 AUC
## Accuracy AdaBoost (Baseline) 50 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227
## Accuracy4 AdaBoost: mfinal = 10 10 0.8726919 0.5969231 0.9311322
## Accuracy1 AdaBoost: mfinal = 30 30 0.8736638 0.5547945 0.9230702
## Accuracy2 AdaBoost: mfinal = 50 50 0.8814383 0.5447761 0.9208989
## Accuracy3 AdaBoost: mfinal = 100 100 0.8862974 0.5263158 0.9228852
## Accuracy5 AdaBoost Top 10 Features 10 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227AdaBoost Line Plot
Objective
Visualize differences in performance metrics across all experiments.
# Load Required Libraries
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
# Reshape Data for Plotting
ada_long <- ada_results %>%
pivot_longer(cols = c("Accuracy", "F1", "AUC"), names_to = "Metric", values_to = "Value")
# Line Plot
ggplot(ada_long, aes(x = Model, y = Value, color = Metric, group = Metric)) +
geom_line(size = 1) +
geom_point(size = 2) +
labs(title = "AdaBoost Model Comparison (Accuracy, F1, AUC)",
x = "Model", y = "Score") +
theme_minimal() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 30, hjust = 1))
AdaBoost Model Comparison Summary
Best Model:
AdaBoost Baseline (mfinal = 50)
- Delivers the highest AUC (0.9359) and ties for
highest F1-score (0.6188).
- Strong overall performance across all metrics makes it the most
balanced and reliable.
Efficient Alternative:
AdaBoost Top 10 Features
- Matches the baseline in Accuracy,
F1, and AUC, while using fewer
predictors.
- Ideal if computational efficiency or interpretability is a
priority.
Least Performing Model:
AdaBoost with mfinal = 30
- Records the lowest F1-score (0.5548) and reduced
accuracy.
- Lower F1 suggests weaker class balance (e.g., poor precision or
recall), making it less ideal, especially in imbalanced settings.
Final Verdict:
Stick with Baseline (mfinal = 50) for best overall
performance, or use the Top 10 Features version for
speed and simplicity. Avoid mfinal = 30 due to weaker
predictive balance.
# Combine All Model Results (DT + RF + AdaBoost)
# Decision Tree Results
dt_all_results <- data.frame(
Model = c(
"DT: Pre-Upsampling (Gini)",
"DT: Upsampled (Gini)",
"DT: Shallow Tree (Gini)",
"DT: Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini)",
"DT: Tune cp (CV, Gini)",
"DT: Pre-Upsampling (Entropy)",
"DT: Upsampled (Entropy)",
"DT: Tune cp (CV, Entropy)"
),
Accuracy = c(
result_imbalanced$Accuracy,
result_baseline$Accuracy,
result_1$Accuracy,
cm_maxdepth$overall["Accuracy"],
cm_cp$overall["Accuracy"],
result_imbalanced_entropy$Accuracy,
result_baseline_entropy$Accuracy,
cm_entropy$overall["Accuracy"]
),
F1 = c(
result_imbalanced$F1,
result_baseline$F1,
result_1$F1,
cm_maxdepth$byClass["F1"],
cm_cp$byClass["F1"],
result_imbalanced_entropy$F1,
result_baseline_entropy$F1,
cm_entropy$byClass["F1"]
),
AUC = as.numeric(c(
result_imbalanced$AUC,
result_baseline$AUC,
result_1$AUC,
auc_maxdepth,
auc_cp,
result_imbalanced_entropy$AUC,
result_baseline_entropy$AUC,
auc_val_entropy
))
)
# Random Forest Results
rf_all_results <- data.frame(
Model = rf_results$Model,
Accuracy = rf_results$Accuracy,
F1 = rf_results$F1,
AUC = rf_results$AUC
)
# AdaBoost Results
ada_all_results <- data.frame(
Model = ada_results$Model,
Accuracy = ada_results$Accuracy,
F1 = ada_results$F1,
AUC = ada_results$AUC
)
# Combine All Into One
all_model_results <- rbind(dt_all_results, rf_all_results, ada_all_results)
# Sort Combined Model Results by F1, then AUC, then Accuracy
all_model_results_sorted <- all_model_results %>%
arrange(desc(F1), desc(AUC), desc(Accuracy))
# View Sorted Table
print(all_model_results_sorted)## Model Accuracy F1 AUC
## 1 Random Forest (Baseline) 0.9125364 0.6218487 0.9330016
## 2 AdaBoost (Baseline) 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227
## 3 AdaBoost Top 10 Features 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227
## 4 RF Tuned mtry (CV) 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9357815
## 5 RF: ntree = 300 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9315168
## 6 RF: ntree = 500 0.9096210 0.5974026 0.9298615
## 7 AdaBoost: mfinal = 10 0.8726919 0.5969231 0.9311322
## 8 RF Top 10 Features 0.9018465 0.5943775 0.9289998
## 9 DT: Tune cp (CV, Gini) 0.8736638 0.5886076 0.8753749
## 10 RF: ntree = 100 0.9028183 0.5762712 0.9274858
## 11 DT: Tune cp (CV, Entropy) 0.8678328 0.5723270 0.8750243
## 12 AdaBoost: mfinal = 30 0.8736638 0.5547945 0.9230702
## 13 AdaBoost: mfinal = 50 0.8814383 0.5447761 0.9208989
## 14 DT: Upsampled (Entropy) 0.8289602 0.5392670 0.9123549
## 15 DT: Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini) 0.8202138 0.5340050 0.8885535
## 16 DT: Upsampled (Gini) 0.8182702 0.5336658 0.8913139
## 17 DT: Shallow Tree (Gini) 0.8182702 0.5336658 0.8913139
## 18 AdaBoost: mfinal = 100 0.8862974 0.5263158 0.9228852
## 19 DT: Pre-Upsampling (Gini) 0.9096210 0.5181347 0.9014352
## 20 DT: Pre-Upsampling (Entropy) 0.9067055 0.5102041 0.9102859# View Combined Table
print(all_model_results)## Model Accuracy F1 AUC
## 1 DT: Pre-Upsampling (Gini) 0.9096210 0.5181347 0.9014352
## 2 DT: Upsampled (Gini) 0.8182702 0.5336658 0.8913139
## 3 DT: Shallow Tree (Gini) 0.8182702 0.5336658 0.8913139
## 4 DT: Tune maxdepth (CV, Gini) 0.8202138 0.5340050 0.8885535
## 5 DT: Tune cp (CV, Gini) 0.8736638 0.5886076 0.8753749
## 6 DT: Pre-Upsampling (Entropy) 0.9067055 0.5102041 0.9102859
## 7 DT: Upsampled (Entropy) 0.8289602 0.5392670 0.9123549
## 8 DT: Tune cp (CV, Entropy) 0.8678328 0.5723270 0.8750243
## 9 Random Forest (Baseline) 0.9125364 0.6218487 0.9330016
## 10 RF Tuned mtry (CV) 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9357815
## 11 RF: ntree = 100 0.9028183 0.5762712 0.9274858
## 12 RF: ntree = 300 0.9076774 0.5991561 0.9315168
## 13 RF: ntree = 500 0.9096210 0.5974026 0.9298615
## 14 RF Top 10 Features 0.9018465 0.5943775 0.9289998
## 15 AdaBoost (Baseline) 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227
## 16 AdaBoost: mfinal = 10 0.8726919 0.5969231 0.9311322
## 17 AdaBoost: mfinal = 30 0.8736638 0.5547945 0.9230702
## 18 AdaBoost: mfinal = 50 0.8814383 0.5447761 0.9208989
## 19 AdaBoost: mfinal = 100 0.8862974 0.5263158 0.9228852
## 20 AdaBoost Top 10 Features 0.8814383 0.6187500 0.9359227Compare all three families of models—Decision Trees, Random Forest, and AdaBoost—across their experiments.
We observe the following:
Best Performing Model Overall:
Random Forest (Baseline)
- Accuracy: 0.9125
- F1 Score: 0.6218
- AUC: 0.9330
This model offers the most balanced performance across all three metrics. It handles class imbalance well (due to upsampling), and the ensemble effect of 500 trees ensures strong generalization. Its F1 and AUC are both superior to the tuned and feature-selected versions, making it a safe and strong performer.
Runner-Up:
AdaBoost (Baseline, mfinal = 50)
- Accuracy: 0.8814
- F1 Score: 0.6188
- AUC: 0.9359 (highest overall AUC)
Although it slightly underperforms in accuracy compared to Random Forest, this AdaBoost model shines in AUC, reflecting excellent class separation. It’s an optimal choice when maximizing ROC-AUC is more critical than marginal gains in accuracy.
Best Decision Tree Configuration:
Tune cp (CV, Gini)
- Accuracy: 0.8736
- F1 Score: 0.5881
- AUC: 0.8753
This tuned version of a Decision Tree improves generalization via cross-validation and pruning. It outperforms all other DT variants and closes the gap with AdaBoost, showing that with tuning, DTs can remain competitive despite their simplicity.
Least Performing Models (Avoid for This Task):
- AdaBoost: mfinal = 30 or 50
- F1 scores around 0.54, indicating poor balance between precision and recall
- Decision Tree: Experiment 1 (Shallow, Gini)
- Lowest F1 (0.5341) among DT models; underfit due to restricted depth
These models suffer either from limited complexity (underfitting) or from suboptimal boosting rounds, leading to weak learning and poorer generalization.
General Takeaways:
- Random Forest models are consistently the strongest
overall across all evaluation metrics.
- AdaBoost excels at AUC, useful when true positive rate matters more than pure accuracy.
- Decision Trees improve dramatically with tuning,
especially pruning via
cp, but still lag behind ensemble methods.
When simplicity and interpretability are priorities, a tuned Decision Tree may suffice. But when performance matters, go with Random Forest (Baseline) or AdaBoost (mfinal = 50) depending on your metric of interest.