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# Load dependencies
pacman::p_load(ISLR2, e1071, caret)

Question 5

We have seen that we can fit an SVM with a non-linear kernel in order to perform classification using a non-linear decision boundary. We will now see that we can also obtain a non-linear decision boundary by performing logistic regression using non-linear transformations of the features.

Part a)

Generate a data set with \(n = 500\) and \(p = 2\), such that the observations belong to two classes with a quadratic decision boundary between them. For instance, you can do this as follows:

> \(x_1\) = runif(500) - 0.5
> \(x_2\) = runif(500) - 0.5
> \(y\) = 1 x (\(x_1^2 - x_2^2\) > 0)

set.seed(42)

x1 = runif(500) - 0.5
x2 = runif(500) - 0.5
y = 1 * (x1^2 - x2^2 > 0)


Part b)

Plot the observations, colored according to their class labels. Your plot should display \(X_1\) on the \(x\)-axis, and \(X_2\) on the \(y\)-axis.

plot(x1, x2, col= c('blue', 'red')[y+1], 
     main= 'Observations Colored by Class Label')


Part c)

Fit a logistic regression model to the data, using \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) as predictors.

fit_glm = glm(y ~ x1 + x2, family= 'binomial')
summary(fit_glm)
## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = y ~ x1 + x2, family = "binomial")
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
## (Intercept)  0.09978    0.08976   1.112    0.266
## x1          -0.17659    0.30658  -0.576    0.565
## x2          -0.20067    0.30978  -0.648    0.517
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 691.79  on 499  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 691.08  on 497  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 697.08
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 3


Part d)

Apply this model to the training data in order to obtain a predicted class label for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels. The decision boundary should be linear.

# Predict
preds = predict(fit_glm, type= 'response')

# Classifications
class_labels = ifelse(preds > 0.5, 1, 0)

# Plot
plot(x1, x2, col= c('blue', 'red')[class_labels+1])


Part e)

Now fit a logistic regression model to the data using non-linear functions of \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) as predictors (e.g. \(X^2_1\) , \(X_1×X_2\), \(log(X_2)\), and so forth).

# Fit a logistic regression with transformations
fit_glm_poly = glm(y ~ poly(x1, 2) + poly(x2, 2), family= 'binomial')
## Warning: glm.fit: algorithm did not converge
## Warning: glm.fit: fitted probabilities numerically 0 or 1 occurred
summary(fit_glm_poly)
## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = y ~ poly(x1, 2) + poly(x2, 2), family = "binomial")
## 
## Coefficients:
##               Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)
## (Intercept)      241.2     2464.3   0.098    0.922
## poly(x1, 2)1   -1560.4    43432.8  -0.036    0.971
## poly(x1, 2)2  150754.9  1452847.9   0.104    0.917
## poly(x2, 2)1    3829.4    54613.8   0.070    0.944
## poly(x2, 2)2 -145721.8  1403130.1  -0.104    0.917
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 6.9179e+02  on 499  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 6.5043e-05  on 495  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 10
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 25


Part f)

Apply this model to the training data in order to obtain a predicted class label for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels. The decision boundary should be obviously non-linear. If it is not, then repeat (a)-(e) until you come up with an example in which the predicted class labels are obviously non-linear.

preds = predict(fit_glm_poly, type= 'response')
class_labels = ifelse(preds > 0.5, 1, 0)

plot(x1, x2, col= c('blue', 'red')[class_labels+1])


Part g)

Fit a support vector classifier to the data with \(X_1\) and \(X_2\) as predictors. Obtain a class prediction for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels.

# Create a dataframe of the data
df = data.frame(x1 = x1, x2 = x2, y = as.factor(y))

# Fit a SVC model
fit_svc = svm(y ~ x1 + x2, data= df, kernel= 'linear', cost= 0.1)

# Predict
preds = predict(fit_svc)

df.pos = df[preds == 1, ]
df.neg = df[preds == 0, ]

# Plot
plot(df.pos$x1, df.pos$x2, col= 'blue', xlab= 'X1', ylab= 'X2')
points(df.neg$x1, df.neg$x2, col = "red")


Part h)

Fit a SVM using a non-linear kernel to the data. Obtain a class prediction for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels.

# Fit a SVM model
fit_svm = svm(y ~ x1 + x2, data= df, kernel= 'radial', gamma= 5)

# Predict
preds = predict(fit_svm, df)

df.pos = df[preds == 1, ]
df.neg = df[preds == 0, ]

# Plot
plot(df.pos$x1, df.pos$x2, col= 'blue', xlab= 'X1', ylab= 'X2')
points(df.neg$x1, df.neg$x2, col = "red")


Part i)

Comment on your results.


The SVC model did not identify any relationship while the SVM model with radial kernels clearly identify a non-linear relationship.

Question 7

In this problem, you will use support vector approaches in order to predict whether a given car gets high or low gas mileage based on the Auto data set.

Part a)

Create a binary variable that takes on a 1 for cars with gas mileage above the median, and a 0 for cars with gas mileage below the median.

# Read in the data
auto_df = Auto
head(auto_df)
##   mpg cylinders displacement horsepower weight acceleration year origin
## 1  18         8          307        130   3504         12.0   70      1
## 2  15         8          350        165   3693         11.5   70      1
## 3  18         8          318        150   3436         11.0   70      1
## 4  16         8          304        150   3433         12.0   70      1
## 5  17         8          302        140   3449         10.5   70      1
## 6  15         8          429        198   4341         10.0   70      1
##                        name
## 1 chevrolet chevelle malibu
## 2         buick skylark 320
## 3        plymouth satellite
## 4             amc rebel sst
## 5               ford torino
## 6          ford galaxie 500
# Calculate the median mpg
mpg_median = median(auto_df$mpg, na.rm= TRUE)

# Create binary variable
auto_df$high_mpg = ifelse(auto_df$mpg > mpg_median, 1, 0)
auto_df$high_mpg = as.factor(auto_df$high_mpg)


Part b)

Fit a support vector classifier to the data with various values of cost, in order to predict whether a car gets high or low gas mileage. Report the cross-validation errors associated with different values of this parameter. Comment on your results. Note you will need to fit the classifier without the gas mileage variable to produce sensible results.


The SVC model with 10-fold cross validation identified the best cost to be 0.01 with the lowest error rate of 0.08916667 .

set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVC model with cross validation
cv_svc = tune(svm, high_mpg ~ . -mpg, data= auto_df, kernel= 'linear', ranges = list(cost= c(0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 100)))

summary(cv_svc)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##  0.01
## 
## - best performance: 0.08916667 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost      error dispersion
## 1 1e-03 0.12775641 0.06746999
## 2 1e-02 0.08916667 0.05258186
## 3 1e-01 0.09160256 0.05869690
## 4 1e+00 0.09173077 0.04357345
## 5 5e+00 0.10942308 0.04734731
## 6 1e+01 0.11705128 0.05314992
## 7 1e+02 0.12993590 0.05797340


Part c)

Now repeat (b), this time using SVMs with radial and polynomial basis kernels, with different values of gamma and degree and cost. Comment on your results.


The SVM model with a radial kernel and 10-fold cross validation identified the best cost to be 1 and gamma as 1 with the lowest error rate of 0.07891026.

The SVM model with a polynomial kernel and 10-fold cross validation identified the best cost to be 1, gamma as 0.1, and degree as 3 with the lowest error rate of 0.08641026. Achieving a similar error rate as a radial kernel.

set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVM model with cross validation
cv_svm_rad = tune(svm, high_mpg ~ . -mpg, data= auto_df, kernel= 'radial', 
              ranges = list(cost= c(0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 100),
                            gamma= c(0.01, 0.1, 1)))

summary(cv_svm_rad)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost gamma
##     1     1
## 
## - best performance: 0.07891026 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##     cost gamma      error dispersion
## 1  1e-03  0.01 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 2  1e-02  0.01 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 3  1e-01  0.01 0.11493590 0.05837054
## 4  1e+00  0.01 0.08660256 0.05519479
## 5  5e+00  0.01 0.09166667 0.05754492
## 6  1e+01  0.01 0.08660256 0.06001684
## 7  1e+02  0.01 0.10442308 0.05805399
## 8  1e-03  0.10 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 9  1e-02  0.10 0.29326923 0.08606908
## 10 1e-01  0.10 0.08666667 0.05390785
## 11 1e+00  0.10 0.08660256 0.05519479
## 12 5e+00  0.10 0.08647436 0.03940028
## 13 1e+01  0.10 0.08647436 0.04445518
## 14 1e+02  0.10 0.10173077 0.04696584
## 15 1e-03  1.00 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 16 1e-02  1.00 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 17 1e-01  1.00 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 18 1e+00  1.00 0.07891026 0.03633038
## 19 5e+00  1.00 0.08910256 0.04132724
## 20 1e+01  1.00 0.08910256 0.04132724
## 21 1e+02  1.00 0.08910256 0.04132724
set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVM model with cross validation
cv_svm_poly = tune(svm, high_mpg ~ . -mpg, data= auto_df, 
              kernel= 'polynomial', 
              ranges = list(cost= c(0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 100),
                            gamma= c(0.01, 0.1, 1),
                            degree= c(2, 3, 4)))

summary(cv_svm_poly)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost gamma degree
##   100   0.1      3
## 
## - best performance: 0.08641026 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##     cost gamma degree      error dispersion
## 1  1e-03  0.01      2 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 2  1e-02  0.01      2 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 3  1e-01  0.01      2 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 4  1e+00  0.01      2 0.58653846 0.05488085
## 5  5e+00  0.01      2 0.39064103 0.10386602
## 6  1e+01  0.01      2 0.31698718 0.09209637
## 7  1e+02  0.01      2 0.28083333 0.06885413
## 8  1e-03  0.10      2 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 9  1e-02  0.10      2 0.58653846 0.05488085
## 10 1e-01  0.10      2 0.31698718 0.09209637
## 11 1e+00  0.10      2 0.28083333 0.06885413
## 12 5e+00  0.10      2 0.16775641 0.10359086
## 13 1e+01  0.10      2 0.17294872 0.08470264
## 14 1e+02  0.10      2 0.19839744 0.07771274
## 15 1e-03  1.00      2 0.31698718 0.09209637
## 16 1e-02  1.00      2 0.28083333 0.06885413
## 17 1e-01  1.00      2 0.17294872 0.08470264
## 18 1e+00  1.00      2 0.19839744 0.07771274
## 19 5e+00  1.00      2 0.21121795 0.08538310
## 20 1e+01  1.00      2 0.22391026 0.09572557
## 21 1e+02  1.00      2 0.25717949 0.09485533
## 22 1e-03  0.01      3 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 23 1e-02  0.01      3 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 24 1e-01  0.01      3 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 25 1e+00  0.01      3 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 26 5e+00  0.01      3 0.36064103 0.14593226
## 27 1e+01  0.01      3 0.30166667 0.10288776
## 28 1e+02  0.01      3 0.25301282 0.07977961
## 29 1e-03  0.10      3 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 30 1e-02  0.10      3 0.30166667 0.10288776
## 31 1e-01  0.10      3 0.25301282 0.07977961
## 32 1e+00  0.10      3 0.09679487 0.05029680
## 33 5e+00  0.10      3 0.09929487 0.05393973
## 34 1e+01  0.10      3 0.09166667 0.05101515
## 35 1e+02  0.10      3 0.08641026 0.05301971
## 36 1e-03  1.00      3 0.09679487 0.05029680
## 37 1e-02  1.00      3 0.09166667 0.05101515
## 38 1e-01  1.00      3 0.08641026 0.05301971
## 39 1e+00  1.00      3 0.10179487 0.04394941
## 40 5e+00  1.00      3 0.10442308 0.03816415
## 41 1e+01  1.00      3 0.10442308 0.03816415
## 42 1e+02  1.00      3 0.10442308 0.03816415
## 43 1e-03  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 44 1e-02  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 45 1e-01  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 46 1e+00  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 47 5e+00  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 48 1e+01  0.01      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 49 1e+02  0.01      4 0.41666667 0.13285341
## 50 1e-03  0.10      4 0.59679487 0.05312225
## 51 1e-02  0.10      4 0.41666667 0.13285341
## 52 1e-01  0.10      4 0.34256410 0.11428217
## 53 1e+00  0.10      4 0.27314103 0.06981031
## 54 5e+00  0.10      4 0.19602564 0.07480024
## 55 1e+01  0.10      4 0.21929487 0.08090842
## 56 1e+02  0.10      4 0.20416667 0.05433005
## 57 1e-03  1.00      4 0.21929487 0.08090842
## 58 1e-02  1.00      4 0.20416667 0.05433005
## 59 1e-01  1.00      4 0.21410256 0.06210638
## 60 1e+00  1.00      4 0.22166667 0.07114891
## 61 5e+00  1.00      4 0.22166667 0.07114891
## 62 1e+01  1.00      4 0.22166667 0.07114891
## 63 1e+02  1.00      4 0.22166667 0.07114891


Part d)

Make some plots to back up your assertions in (b) and (c).

Hint: In the lab, we used the plot() function for svm objects only in cases with \(p = 2\). When \(p > 2\), you can use the plot() function to create plots displaying pairs of variables at a time. Essentially, instead of typing

> plot(svmfit, dat)
where svmfit contains your fitted model and dat is a data frame containing your data, you can type

> plot(svmfit, dat, \(x_1 ∼ x_4\))
in order to plot just the first and fourth variables. However, you must replace \(x_1\) and \(x_4\) with the correct variable names. To find out more, type ?plot.svm.

# Subset data to only two predictors
auto_df_subset = auto_df[, c("horsepower", "weight", "high_mpg")]

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVC
best_svc = svm(
  high_mpg ~ ., data = auto_df_subset,
  kernel = "linear",
  cost = cv_svc$best.parameters$cost
)

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVM radial
best_rad = svm(
  high_mpg ~ ., data = auto_df_subset,
  kernel = "radial",
  cost = cv_svm_rad$best.parameters$cost,
  gamma = cv_svm_rad$best.parameters$gamma
)

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVM polynomial
best_poly = svm(
  high_mpg ~ ., data = auto_df_subset,
  kernel = "polynomial",
  cost = cv_svm_poly$best.parameters$cost,
  gamma = cv_svm_poly$best.parameters$gamma,
  degree = cv_svm_poly$best.parameters$degree
)

# Plot the models
plot(best_svc, data= auto_df_subset)

plot(best_rad, data= auto_df_subset)

plot(best_poly, data= auto_df_subset)


Question 8

This problem involves the OJ data set which is part of the ISLR2 package.

Part a)

Create a training set containing a random sample of 800 observations, and a test set containing the remaining observations.

set.seed(42)

# Read in the data
oj_df = OJ
head(oj_df)
##   Purchase WeekofPurchase StoreID PriceCH PriceMM DiscCH DiscMM SpecialCH
## 1       CH            237       1    1.75    1.99   0.00    0.0         0
## 2       CH            239       1    1.75    1.99   0.00    0.3         0
## 3       CH            245       1    1.86    2.09   0.17    0.0         0
## 4       MM            227       1    1.69    1.69   0.00    0.0         0
## 5       CH            228       7    1.69    1.69   0.00    0.0         0
## 6       CH            230       7    1.69    1.99   0.00    0.0         0
##   SpecialMM  LoyalCH SalePriceMM SalePriceCH PriceDiff Store7 PctDiscMM
## 1         0 0.500000        1.99        1.75      0.24     No  0.000000
## 2         1 0.600000        1.69        1.75     -0.06     No  0.150754
## 3         0 0.680000        2.09        1.69      0.40     No  0.000000
## 4         0 0.400000        1.69        1.69      0.00     No  0.000000
## 5         0 0.956535        1.69        1.69      0.00    Yes  0.000000
## 6         1 0.965228        1.99        1.69      0.30    Yes  0.000000
##   PctDiscCH ListPriceDiff STORE
## 1  0.000000          0.24     1
## 2  0.000000          0.24     1
## 3  0.091398          0.23     1
## 4  0.000000          0.00     1
## 5  0.000000          0.00     0
## 6  0.000000          0.30     0
# Split data into train and test
train_index = sample(1:nrow(oj_df), 800)

train = oj_df[train_index, ]
test = oj_df[-train_index, ]


Part b)

Fit a support vector classifer to the training data using cost = 0.01, with Purchase as the response and the other variables as predictors. Use the summary() function to produce summary statistics, and describe the results obtained.


The SVC model created 435 vectors. Out of those, 215 vectors belong to level CH and 217 vectors belong to level MM.

# Fit a SVC model
fit_svc = svm(Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'linear', cost= 0.01)
summary(fit_svc)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train, kernel = "linear", cost = 0.01)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  linear 
##        cost:  0.01 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  432
## 
##  ( 215 217 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM


Part c)

What are the training and test error rates?


Train error: 17.12%
Test error: 16.3%

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(fit_svc, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 432  77
##         MM  60 231
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.8288          
##                  95% CI : (0.8008, 0.8542)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615           
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : <2e-16          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0.6346          
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.1716          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.7500          
##             Specificity : 0.8780          
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.7938          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8487          
##              Prevalence : 0.3850          
##          Detection Rate : 0.2888          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3638          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8140          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(fit_svc, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 142  25
##         MM  19  84
##                                          
##                Accuracy : 0.837          
##                  95% CI : (0.7875, 0.879)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963         
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : <2e-16         
##                                          
##                   Kappa : 0.6585         
##                                          
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.451          
##                                          
##             Sensitivity : 0.7706         
##             Specificity : 0.8820         
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8155         
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8503         
##              Prevalence : 0.4037         
##          Detection Rate : 0.3111         
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3815         
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8263         
##                                          
##        'Positive' Class : MM             
## 


Part d)

Use the tune() function to select an optimal cost. Consider values in the range 0.01 to 10.

set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVC model with cross validation
cv_svc = tune(svm, Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'linear', ranges = list(cost= c(0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10)))

summary(cv_svc)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##     1
## 
## - best performance: 0.175 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost   error dispersion
## 1  0.01 0.17750 0.02415229
## 2  0.10 0.17625 0.03356689
## 3  1.00 0.17500 0.02886751
## 4  5.00 0.18375 0.02703521
## 5 10.00 0.18625 0.02729087


Part e)

Compute the training and test error rates using this new value for cost.


Train error: 16.75%
Test error: 16.3%

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVC
best_svc = svm(
  Purchase ~ ., data = train,
  kernel = "linear",
  cost = cv_svc$best.parameters$cost
)

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(best_svc, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 434  76
##         MM  58 232
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.8325          
##                  95% CI : (0.8048, 0.8577)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615           
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : <2e-16          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0.6424          
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.1419          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.7532          
##             Specificity : 0.8821          
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8000          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8510          
##              Prevalence : 0.3850          
##          Detection Rate : 0.2900          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3625          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8177          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(best_svc, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 140  23
##         MM  21  86
##                                          
##                Accuracy : 0.837          
##                  95% CI : (0.7875, 0.879)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963         
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : <2e-16         
##                                          
##                   Kappa : 0.6605         
##                                          
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.8802         
##                                          
##             Sensitivity : 0.7890         
##             Specificity : 0.8696         
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8037         
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8589         
##              Prevalence : 0.4037         
##          Detection Rate : 0.3185         
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3963         
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8293         
##                                          
##        'Positive' Class : MM             
## 


Part f)

Repeat parts (b) through (e) using a support vector machine with a radial kernel. Use the default value for gamma.


The SVC model created 621 vectors. Out of those, 308 vectors belong to level CH and 313 vectors belong to level MM.

# Fit a SVM model
fit_svm_rad = svm(Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'radial', cost= 0.01)
summary(fit_svm_rad)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train, kernel = "radial", cost = 0.01)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  radial 
##        cost:  0.01 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  621
## 
##  ( 308 313 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Train error: 38.5%
Test error: 40.37%

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(fit_svm_rad, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 492 308
##         MM   0   0
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.615           
##                  95% CI : (0.5803, 0.6489)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615           
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.5156          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0               
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.000           
##             Specificity : 1.000           
##          Pos Pred Value :   NaN           
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.615           
##              Prevalence : 0.385           
##          Detection Rate : 0.000           
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.000           
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.500           
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(fit_svm_rad, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 161 109
##         MM   0   0
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.5963          
##                  95% CI : (0.5351, 0.6553)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.5263          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0               
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.0000          
##             Specificity : 1.0000          
##          Pos Pred Value :    NaN          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.5963          
##              Prevalence : 0.4037          
##          Detection Rate : 0.0000          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.0000          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.5000          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVM model with cross validation
cv_svm_rad = tune(svm, Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'radial', ranges = list(cost= c(0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10)))

summary(cv_svm_rad)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##     1
## 
## - best performance: 0.18 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost   error dispersion
## 1  0.01 0.38500 0.04199868
## 2  0.10 0.18125 0.03784563
## 3  1.00 0.18000 0.03343734
## 4  5.00 0.18625 0.03701070
## 5 10.00 0.19375 0.03738408

Train error: 15%
Test error: 15.93%

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVM
best_svm_rad = svm(
  Purchase ~ ., data = train,
  kernel = "radial",
  cost = cv_svm_rad$best.parameters$cost
)

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(best_svm_rad, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 453  81
##         MM  39 227
##                                          
##                Accuracy : 0.85           
##                  95% CI : (0.8233, 0.874)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2.2e-16      
##                                          
##                   Kappa : 0.675          
##                                          
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.000182       
##                                          
##             Sensitivity : 0.7370         
##             Specificity : 0.9207         
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8534         
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8483         
##              Prevalence : 0.3850         
##          Detection Rate : 0.2838         
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3325         
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8289         
##                                          
##        'Positive' Class : MM             
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(best_svm_rad, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 146  28
##         MM  15  81
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.8407          
##                  95% CI : (0.7915, 0.8823)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2e-16         
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0.6627          
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.06725         
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.7431          
##             Specificity : 0.9068          
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8438          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8391          
##              Prevalence : 0.4037          
##          Detection Rate : 0.3000          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3556          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8250          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 


Part g)

Repeat parts (b) through (e) using a support vector machine with a polynomial kernel. Set degree = 2.


The SVC model created 621 vectors. Out of those, 308 vectors belong to level CH and 313 vectors belong to level MM.

# Fit a SVM model
fit_svm_poly = svm(Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'polynomial', cost= 0.01, degree= 2)
summary(fit_svm_poly)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train, kernel = "polynomial", 
##     cost = 0.01, degree = 2)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  polynomial 
##        cost:  0.01 
##      degree:  2 
##      coef.0:  0 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  621
## 
##  ( 308 313 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Train error: 38.5%
Test error: 40.37%

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(fit_svm_poly, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 492 308
##         MM   0   0
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.615           
##                  95% CI : (0.5803, 0.6489)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615           
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.5156          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0               
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.000           
##             Specificity : 1.000           
##          Pos Pred Value :   NaN           
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.615           
##              Prevalence : 0.385           
##          Detection Rate : 0.000           
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.000           
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.500           
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(fit_svm_poly, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 161 109
##         MM   0   0
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.5963          
##                  95% CI : (0.5351, 0.6553)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.5263          
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0               
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : <2e-16          
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.0000          
##             Specificity : 1.0000          
##          Pos Pred Value :    NaN          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.5963          
##              Prevalence : 0.4037          
##          Detection Rate : 0.0000          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.0000          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.5000          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 
set.seed(42)

# Tune a SVM model with cross validation
cv_svm_poly = tune(svm, Purchase ~ ., data= train, kernel= 'polynomial', ranges = list(cost= c(0.01, 0.1, 1, 5, 10), degree= 2))

summary(cv_svm_poly)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost degree
##     5      2
## 
## - best performance: 0.18375 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost degree   error dispersion
## 1  0.01      2 0.38625 0.04308019
## 2  0.10      2 0.31625 0.05529278
## 3  1.00      2 0.19250 0.04216370
## 4  5.00      2 0.18375 0.04041881
## 5 10.00      2 0.19000 0.03425801

Train error: 14.75%
Test error: 16.67%

# Re-fit model with best parameters for SVM
best_svm_poly = svm(
  Purchase ~ ., data = train,
  kernel = 'polynomial',
  cost = cv_svm_poly$best.parameters$cost,
  degree = cv_svm_poly$best.parameters$degree
)

# Calculate the train error rate
preds = predict(best_svm_poly, train)
confusionMatrix(preds, train$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 459  85
##         MM  33 223
##                                          
##                Accuracy : 0.8525         
##                  95% CI : (0.826, 0.8764)
##     No Information Rate : 0.615          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2.2e-16      
##                                          
##                   Kappa : 0.6784         
##                                          
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 2.667e-06      
##                                          
##             Sensitivity : 0.7240         
##             Specificity : 0.9329         
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8711         
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8438         
##              Prevalence : 0.3850         
##          Detection Rate : 0.2787         
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3200         
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8285         
##                                          
##        'Positive' Class : MM             
## 
# Calculate the test error rate
preds = predict(best_svm_poly, test)
confusionMatrix(preds, test$Purchase, positive= 'MM')
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
## 
##           Reference
## Prediction  CH  MM
##         CH 146  30
##         MM  15  79
##                                           
##                Accuracy : 0.8333          
##                  95% CI : (0.7834, 0.8758)
##     No Information Rate : 0.5963          
##     P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2e-16         
##                                           
##                   Kappa : 0.646           
##                                           
##  Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.03689         
##                                           
##             Sensitivity : 0.7248          
##             Specificity : 0.9068          
##          Pos Pred Value : 0.8404          
##          Neg Pred Value : 0.8295          
##              Prevalence : 0.4037          
##          Detection Rate : 0.2926          
##    Detection Prevalence : 0.3481          
##       Balanced Accuracy : 0.8158          
##                                           
##        'Positive' Class : MM              
## 


Part h)

Overall, which approach seems to give the best results on this data?


The best test error produced was 15.93% by the SVM model using a radial kernel.