Load the required libraries

library(MASS)
library(ISLR)

Check Boston Housing dataset

names(Boston)
##  [1] "crim"    "zn"      "indus"   "chas"    "nox"     "rm"      "age"    
##  [8] "dis"     "rad"     "tax"     "ptratio" "black"   "lstat"   "medv"
?Boston
head(Boston)
##      crim zn indus chas   nox    rm  age    dis rad tax ptratio  black
## 1 0.00632 18  2.31    0 0.538 6.575 65.2 4.0900   1 296    15.3 396.90
## 2 0.02731  0  7.07    0 0.469 6.421 78.9 4.9671   2 242    17.8 396.90
## 3 0.02729  0  7.07    0 0.469 7.185 61.1 4.9671   2 242    17.8 392.83
## 4 0.03237  0  2.18    0 0.458 6.998 45.8 6.0622   3 222    18.7 394.63
## 5 0.06905  0  2.18    0 0.458 7.147 54.2 6.0622   3 222    18.7 396.90
## 6 0.02985  0  2.18    0 0.458 6.430 58.7 6.0622   3 222    18.7 394.12
##   lstat medv
## 1  4.98 24.0
## 2  9.14 21.6
## 3  4.03 34.7
## 4  2.94 33.4
## 5  5.33 36.2
## 6  5.21 28.7

Plot medv ~ lstat

plot(medv ~lstat,Boston)

Linear model

Fit a linear model between medv and lstat.

fit1 <- lm(medv~ lstat, data=Boston)
fit1
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat, data = Boston)
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)        lstat  
##       34.55        -0.95
summary(fit1)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat, data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -15.168  -3.990  -1.318   2.034  24.500 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 34.55384    0.56263   61.41   <2e-16 ***
## lstat       -0.95005    0.03873  -24.53   <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 6.216 on 504 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.5441, Adjusted R-squared:  0.5432 
## F-statistic: 601.6 on 1 and 504 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Based on linaer model fit1, show fit line in red

fit1 = lm(medv~ lstat, data=Boston)
plot(medv ~lstat,Boston)
abline(fit1, col="red")

What all data is available in the fitted model?

names(fit1)
##  [1] "coefficients"  "residuals"     "effects"       "rank"         
##  [5] "fitted.values" "assign"        "qr"            "df.residual"  
##  [9] "xlevels"       "call"          "terms"         "model"

Confidence interval for fit1?

confint(fit1)
##                 2.5 %     97.5 %
## (Intercept) 33.448457 35.6592247
## lstat       -1.026148 -0.8739505

Print the lower and upper conf interval

predict(fit1, data.frame(lstat=c(5,10,15)), interval = "confidence")
##        fit      lwr      upr
## 1 29.80359 29.00741 30.59978
## 2 25.05335 24.47413 25.63256
## 3 20.30310 19.73159 20.87461

Multple linear regression

fit2 <- lm(medv ~ lstat+age, data=Boston)
fit2
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat + age, data = Boston)
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)        lstat          age  
##    33.22276     -1.03207      0.03454
summary(fit2)        
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat + age, data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -15.981  -3.978  -1.283   1.968  23.158 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 33.22276    0.73085  45.458  < 2e-16 ***
## lstat       -1.03207    0.04819 -21.416  < 2e-16 ***
## age          0.03454    0.01223   2.826  0.00491 ** 
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 6.173 on 503 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.5513, Adjusted R-squared:  0.5495 
## F-statistic:   309 on 2 and 503 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

In the above model fit2, Percentage of variancee explained R2= ~54%

Lets fit another model using all predictors

fit3 <- lm(medv ~., data=Boston)
summary(fit3)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ ., data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -15.595  -2.730  -0.518   1.777  26.199 
## 
## Coefficients:
##               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)  3.646e+01  5.103e+00   7.144 3.28e-12 ***
## crim        -1.080e-01  3.286e-02  -3.287 0.001087 ** 
## zn           4.642e-02  1.373e-02   3.382 0.000778 ***
## indus        2.056e-02  6.150e-02   0.334 0.738288    
## chas         2.687e+00  8.616e-01   3.118 0.001925 ** 
## nox         -1.777e+01  3.820e+00  -4.651 4.25e-06 ***
## rm           3.810e+00  4.179e-01   9.116  < 2e-16 ***
## age          6.922e-04  1.321e-02   0.052 0.958229    
## dis         -1.476e+00  1.995e-01  -7.398 6.01e-13 ***
## rad          3.060e-01  6.635e-02   4.613 5.07e-06 ***
## tax         -1.233e-02  3.760e-03  -3.280 0.001112 ** 
## ptratio     -9.527e-01  1.308e-01  -7.283 1.31e-12 ***
## black        9.312e-03  2.686e-03   3.467 0.000573 ***
## lstat       -5.248e-01  5.072e-02 -10.347  < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 4.745 on 492 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.7406, Adjusted R-squared:  0.7338 
## F-statistic: 108.1 on 13 and 492 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Now, Percentage of variance(R2) explained increased to ~ 73.38% in fit3 Note: higher R2 is better

Divide console in 4 parts for 4 plots. 2x2 =4 plots

par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(fit3)

Remove age and indus as they are not significant. Here R2 increases a little bit

fit4 <- update(fit3, ~.-age-indus)
summary(fit4)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ crim + zn + chas + nox + rm + dis + rad + 
##     tax + ptratio + black + lstat, data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
## -15.5984  -2.7386  -0.5046   1.7273  26.2373 
## 
## Coefficients:
##               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)  36.341145   5.067492   7.171 2.73e-12 ***
## crim         -0.108413   0.032779  -3.307 0.001010 ** 
## zn            0.045845   0.013523   3.390 0.000754 ***
## chas          2.718716   0.854240   3.183 0.001551 ** 
## nox         -17.376023   3.535243  -4.915 1.21e-06 ***
## rm            3.801579   0.406316   9.356  < 2e-16 ***
## dis          -1.492711   0.185731  -8.037 6.84e-15 ***
## rad           0.299608   0.063402   4.726 3.00e-06 ***
## tax          -0.011778   0.003372  -3.493 0.000521 ***
## ptratio      -0.946525   0.129066  -7.334 9.24e-13 ***
## black         0.009291   0.002674   3.475 0.000557 ***
## lstat        -0.522553   0.047424 -11.019  < 2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 4.736 on 494 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.7406, Adjusted R-squared:  0.7348 
## F-statistic: 128.2 on 11 and 494 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Non linar terms and interactions

fit5 <- lm(medv~lstat*age, Boston)
summary(fit5)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat * age, data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -15.806  -4.045  -1.333   2.085  27.552 
## 
## Coefficients:
##               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 36.0885359  1.4698355  24.553  < 2e-16 ***
## lstat       -1.3921168  0.1674555  -8.313 8.78e-16 ***
## age         -0.0007209  0.0198792  -0.036   0.9711    
## lstat:age    0.0041560  0.0018518   2.244   0.0252 *  
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 6.149 on 502 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.5557, Adjusted R-squared:  0.5531 
## F-statistic: 209.3 on 3 and 502 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Adding quadratic terms in predictors

fit6 <- lm(medv~lstat+I(lstat^2), Boston)
summary(fit6)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ lstat + I(lstat^2), data = Boston)
## 
## Residuals:
##      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
## -15.2834  -3.8313  -0.5295   2.3095  25.4148 
## 
## Coefficients:
##              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 42.862007   0.872084   49.15   <2e-16 ***
## lstat       -2.332821   0.123803  -18.84   <2e-16 ***
## I(lstat^2)   0.043547   0.003745   11.63   <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 5.524 on 503 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.6407, Adjusted R-squared:  0.6393 
## F-statistic: 448.5 on 2 and 503 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
attach(Boston)

Back to default single plot in console

par(mfrow=c(1,1))

Plot the fitted model

Extract fitted values from model fit6 and plot the points of the model

plot(medv~lstat)
points(lstat, fitted(fit6), col="red", pch=20)
points(lstat, fitted(fit1), col="green", pch=19)

Using poly()

Using a poly() utility function to fit degree 4 polynomial

fit7 <- lm(medv~poly(lstat, 4))
summary(fit7)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = medv ~ poly(lstat, 4))
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -13.563  -3.180  -0.632   2.283  27.181 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)       22.5328     0.2347  95.995  < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 4)1 -152.4595     5.2801 -28.874  < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 4)2   64.2272     5.2801  12.164  < 2e-16 ***
## poly(lstat, 4)3  -27.0511     5.2801  -5.123 4.29e-07 ***
## poly(lstat, 4)4   25.4517     5.2801   4.820 1.90e-06 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 5.28 on 501 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.673,  Adjusted R-squared:  0.6704 
## F-statistic: 257.8 on 4 and 501 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
plot(medv~lstat)
points(lstat, fitted(fit7), col="blue", pch=20)

Plot different pch (plotting chars)

plot(1:20, 1:20, pch=1:12, ces=2)

Qualitative predictors

Edit the carseats dataset using Rstudio view

fix(Carseats)
names(Carseats)
##  [1] "Sales"       "CompPrice"   "Income"      "Advertising" "Population" 
##  [6] "Price"       "ShelveLoc"   "Age"         "Education"   "Urban"      
## [11] "US"
summary(Carseats)
##      Sales          CompPrice       Income        Advertising    
##  Min.   : 0.000   Min.   : 77   Min.   : 21.00   Min.   : 0.000  
##  1st Qu.: 5.390   1st Qu.:115   1st Qu.: 42.75   1st Qu.: 0.000  
##  Median : 7.490   Median :125   Median : 69.00   Median : 5.000  
##  Mean   : 7.496   Mean   :125   Mean   : 68.66   Mean   : 6.635  
##  3rd Qu.: 9.320   3rd Qu.:135   3rd Qu.: 91.00   3rd Qu.:12.000  
##  Max.   :16.270   Max.   :175   Max.   :120.00   Max.   :29.000  
##    Population        Price        ShelveLoc        Age       
##  Min.   : 10.0   Min.   : 24.0   Bad   : 96   Min.   :25.00  
##  1st Qu.:139.0   1st Qu.:100.0   Good  : 85   1st Qu.:39.75  
##  Median :272.0   Median :117.0   Medium:219   Median :54.50  
##  Mean   :264.8   Mean   :115.8                Mean   :53.32  
##  3rd Qu.:398.5   3rd Qu.:131.0                3rd Qu.:66.00  
##  Max.   :509.0   Max.   :191.0                Max.   :80.00  
##    Education    Urban       US     
##  Min.   :10.0   No :118   No :142  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   Yes:282   Yes:258  
##  Median :14.0                      
##  Mean   :13.9                      
##  3rd Qu.:16.0                      
##  Max.   :18.0

Interaction terms

Fit another model with interactin terms

fit1 <- lm(Sales ~.+Income:Advertising+Age:Price, Carseats)
summary(fit1)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = Sales ~ . + Income:Advertising + Age:Price, data = Carseats)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -2.9208 -0.7503  0.0177  0.6754  3.3413 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                      Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)         6.5755654  1.0087470   6.519 2.22e-10 ***
## CompPrice           0.0929371  0.0041183  22.567  < 2e-16 ***
## Income              0.0108940  0.0026044   4.183 3.57e-05 ***
## Advertising         0.0702462  0.0226091   3.107 0.002030 ** 
## Population          0.0001592  0.0003679   0.433 0.665330    
## Price              -0.1008064  0.0074399 -13.549  < 2e-16 ***
## ShelveLocGood       4.8486762  0.1528378  31.724  < 2e-16 ***
## ShelveLocMedium     1.9532620  0.1257682  15.531  < 2e-16 ***
## Age                -0.0579466  0.0159506  -3.633 0.000318 ***
## Education          -0.0208525  0.0196131  -1.063 0.288361    
## UrbanYes            0.1401597  0.1124019   1.247 0.213171    
## USYes              -0.1575571  0.1489234  -1.058 0.290729    
## Income:Advertising  0.0007510  0.0002784   2.698 0.007290 ** 
## Price:Age           0.0001068  0.0001333   0.801 0.423812    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 1.011 on 386 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.8761, Adjusted R-squared:  0.8719 
## F-statistic:   210 on 13 and 386 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

Show the dummy variables for shelveloc

contrasts(Carseats$ShelveLoc)
##        Good Medium
## Bad       0      0
## Good      1      0
## Medium    0      1

R functions

regplot <- function(x, y){
    fit <- lm(y~x)
    plot(x, y)
    abline(fit, col="red")
}

attach(Carseats)

regplot(Price, Sales)

Multiple un-named arguments passing to R function. Call regplot with different set of parameters

regplot <- function(x, y, ...) {
    fit <- lm(y~x)
    plot(x, y,...)
    abline(fit, col="red")
}

regplot(Price, Sales, xlab="Price", ylab="Sales", col="blue", pch=20)

regplot(Price, Sales, col="blue", pch=6)