The Validation Set Approach

library(ISLR)
## Warning: package 'ISLR' was built under R version 3.3.3
set.seed(1)
train=sample(392,196)
lm.fit=lm(mpg~horsepower, data=Auto, subset=train)
attach(Auto)
mean((mpg -predict (lm.fit ,Auto))[-train ]^2)
## [1] 26.14142
lm.fit2=lm(mpg~poly(horsepower, 2), data=Auto, subset=train)
mean((mpg-predict(lm.fit2, Auto))[-train ]^2)
## [1] 19.82259
lm.fit3=lm(mpg~poly(horsepower, 3), data=Auto, subset = train)
mean((mpg-predict(lm.fit3, Auto))[-train]^2)
## [1] 19.78252
set.seed(2)
train=sample(392, 196)
lm.fit=lm(mpg~horsepower, subset=train)
mean((mpg-predict(lm.fit, Auto))[-train]^2)
## [1] 23.29559
lm.fit2=lm(mpg~poly(horsepower, 2), data=Auto, subset=train)
mean((mpg-predict(lm.fit2, Auto))[-train]^2)
## [1] 18.90124
lm.fit3=lm(mpg~poly(horsepower, 3), data=Auto, subset=train)
mean((mpg-predict(lm.fit3, Auto))[-train]^2)
## [1] 19.2574

Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation

glm.fit=glm(mpg~horsepower, data=Auto)
coef(glm.fit)
## (Intercept)  horsepower 
##  39.9358610  -0.1578447
lm.fit=lm(mpg~horsepower, data=Auto)
coef(lm.fit)
## (Intercept)  horsepower 
##  39.9358610  -0.1578447
library(boot)
glm.fit=glm(mpg~horsepower, data=Auto)
cv.err=cv.glm(Auto, glm.fit)
cv.err$delta
## [1] 24.23151 24.23114
cv.error=rep(0,5)
for(i in 1:5){
  glm.fit=glm(mpg~poly(horsepower,i), data=Auto)
  cv.error[i]=cv.glm(Auto, glm.fit)$delta[1]
}
cv.error
## [1] 24.23151 19.24821 19.33498 19.42443 19.03321

k-Fold Cross-Validation

set.seed(17)
cv.error.10=rep(0,10)
for(i in 1:10){
  glm.fit=glm(mpg~poly(horsepower,i), data=Auto)
  cv.error.10[i]=cv.glm(Auto, glm.fit, K=10)$delta[1]
}
cv.error.10
##  [1] 24.20520 19.18924 19.30662 19.33799 18.87911 19.02103 18.89609
##  [8] 19.71201 18.95140 19.50196

The Bootstrap

Estimating the Accuracy of a Statistic of Interest

alpha.fn=function(data,index){
  X=data$X[index]
  Y=data$Y[index]
  return((var(Y)-cov(X,Y))/(var(X)+var(Y)-2*cov(X,Y)))
}
alpha.fn(Portfolio, 1:100)
## [1] 0.5758321
set.seed(1)
alpha.fn(Portfolio, sample(100,100,replace=T))
## [1] 0.5963833
boot(Portfolio, alpha.fn, R=1000)
## 
## ORDINARY NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP
## 
## 
## Call:
## boot(data = Portfolio, statistic = alpha.fn, R = 1000)
## 
## 
## Bootstrap Statistics :
##      original        bias    std. error
## t1* 0.5758321 -7.315422e-05  0.08861826

Estimating the Accuracy of a Linear Regression Model

boot.fn=function(data, index)
  return(coef(lm(mpg~horsepower, data=data, subset=index)))

boot.fn(Auto, 1:392)
## (Intercept)  horsepower 
##  39.9358610  -0.1578447
set.seed(1)
boot.fn(Auto, sample(392, 392, replace=T))
## (Intercept)  horsepower 
##  38.7387134  -0.1481952
boot.fn(Auto, sample(392, 392, replace=T))
## (Intercept)  horsepower 
##  40.0383086  -0.1596104
boot(Auto, boot.fn, 1000)
## 
## ORDINARY NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP
## 
## 
## Call:
## boot(data = Auto, statistic = boot.fn, R = 1000)
## 
## 
## Bootstrap Statistics :
##       original      bias    std. error
## t1* 39.9358610  0.02972191 0.860007896
## t2* -0.1578447 -0.00030823 0.007404467
summary(lm(mpg~horsepower, data=Auto))$coef
##               Estimate  Std. Error   t value      Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 39.9358610 0.717498656  55.65984 1.220362e-187
## horsepower  -0.1578447 0.006445501 -24.48914  7.031989e-81
boot.fn=function(data, index)
  coefficients(lm(mpg~horsepower+I(horsepower^2), data=data, subset=index))

set.seed(1)
boot(Auto, boot.fn, 1000)
## 
## ORDINARY NONPARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP
## 
## 
## Call:
## boot(data = Auto, statistic = boot.fn, R = 1000)
## 
## 
## Bootstrap Statistics :
##         original        bias     std. error
## t1* 56.900099702  6.098115e-03 2.0944855842
## t2* -0.466189630 -1.777108e-04 0.0334123802
## t3*  0.001230536  1.324315e-06 0.0001208339
detach(Auto)