(a) Perform polynomial regression to predict wage using age. Use cross-validation to select the optimal degree d for the polynomial. What degree was chosen, and how does this compare to the results of hypothesis testing using ANOVA? Make a plot of the resulting polynomial fit to the data.
library(ISLR)
## Warning: package 'ISLR' was built under R version 3.5.2
library(boot)
set.seed(1)
all.deltas = rep(NA, 10)
for (i in 1:10) {
glm.fit = glm(wage~poly(age, i), data=Wage)
all.deltas[i] = cv.glm(Wage, glm.fit, K=10)$delta[2]
}
plot(1:10, all.deltas, xlab="Degree", ylab="CV error", type="l", pch=20, lwd=2, ylim=c(1590, 1700))
min.point = min(all.deltas)
sd.points = sd(all.deltas)
abline(h=min.point + 0.2 * sd.points, col="red", lty="dotted")
abline(h=min.point - 0.2 * sd.points, col="red", lty="dotted")
legend("topright", "0.2-standard deviation lines", lty="dashed", col="blue")
fit.1 <- lm(wage~age, data=Wage)
fit.2 <- lm(wage~poly(age,2), data=Wage)
fit.3 <- lm(wage~poly(age,3), data=Wage)
fit.4 <- lm(wage~poly(age,4), data=Wage)
fit.5 <- lm(wage~poly(age,5), data=Wage)
fit.6 <- lm(wage~poly(age,6), data=Wage)
fit.7 <- lm(wage~poly(age,7), data=Wage)
fit.8 <- lm(wage~poly(age,8), data=Wage)
fit.9 <- lm(wage~poly(age,9), data=Wage)
fit.10 <- lm(wage~poly(age,10), data=Wage)
anova(fit.1,fit.2,fit.3,fit.4,fit.5,fit.6,fit.7,fit.8,fit.9,fit.10)
## Analysis of Variance Table
##
## Model 1: wage ~ age
## Model 2: wage ~ poly(age, 2)
## Model 3: wage ~ poly(age, 3)
## Model 4: wage ~ poly(age, 4)
## Model 5: wage ~ poly(age, 5)
## Model 6: wage ~ poly(age, 6)
## Model 7: wage ~ poly(age, 7)
## Model 8: wage ~ poly(age, 8)
## Model 9: wage ~ poly(age, 9)
## Model 10: wage ~ poly(age, 10)
## Res.Df RSS Df Sum of Sq F Pr(>F)
## 1 2998 5022216
## 2 2997 4793430 1 228786 143.7638 < 2.2e-16 ***
## 3 2996 4777674 1 15756 9.9005 0.001669 **
## 4 2995 4771604 1 6070 3.8143 0.050909 .
## 5 2994 4770322 1 1283 0.8059 0.369398
## 6 2993 4766389 1 3932 2.4709 0.116074
## 7 2992 4763834 1 2555 1.6057 0.205199
## 8 2991 4763707 1 127 0.0796 0.777865
## 9 2990 4756703 1 7004 4.4014 0.035994 *
## 10 2989 4756701 1 3 0.0017 0.967529
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
plot(wage~age, data=Wage, col="darkgrey")
agelims = range(Wage$age)
age.grid = seq(from=agelims[1], to=agelims[2])
lm.fit = lm(wage~poly(age, 3), data=Wage)
lm.pred = predict(lm.fit, data.frame(age=age.grid))
lines(age.grid, lm.pred, col="purple", lwd=2)
(b) Fit a step function to predict wage using age, and perform crossvalidation to choose the optimal number of cuts. Make a plot of the fit obtained.
set.seed(1)
all.cvs = rep(NA, 10)
for (i in 2:10) {
Wage$age.cut = cut(Wage$age, i)
lm.fit = glm(wage~age.cut, data=Wage)
all.cvs[i] = cv.glm(Wage, lm.fit, K=10)$delta[2]
}
plot(2:10, all.cvs[-1], xlab="Number of cuts", ylab="CV error", type="l", pch=20, lwd=2)
lm.fit = glm(wage~cut(age, 8), data=Wage)
agelims = range(Wage$age)
age.grid = seq(from=agelims[1], to=agelims[2])
lm.pred = predict(lm.fit, data.frame(age=age.grid))
plot(wage~age, data=Wage, col="darkgrey")
lines(age.grid, lm.pred, col="red", lwd=2)
(a) Split the data into a training set and a test set. Using out-of-state tuition as the response and the other variables as the predictors, perform forward stepwise selection on the training set in order to identify a satisfactory model that uses just a subset of the predictors.
library(ISLR)
library(leaps)
## Warning: package 'leaps' was built under R version 3.5.3
set.seed(1)
trainid <- sample(1:nrow(College), nrow(College)/2)
train <- College[trainid,]
test <- College[-trainid,]
predict.regsubsets <- function(object, newdata, id, ...){
form <- as.formula(object$call[[2]])
mat <- model.matrix(form, newdata)
coefi <- coef(object, id=id)
xvars <- names(coefi)
mat[,xvars]%*%coefi
}
fit.fwd <- regsubsets(Outstate~., data=train, nvmax=ncol(College)-1)
(fwd.summary <- summary(fit.fwd))
## Subset selection object
## Call: regsubsets.formula(Outstate ~ ., data = train, nvmax = ncol(College) -
## 1)
## 17 Variables (and intercept)
## Forced in Forced out
## PrivateYes FALSE FALSE
## Apps FALSE FALSE
## Accept FALSE FALSE
## Enroll FALSE FALSE
## Top10perc FALSE FALSE
## Top25perc FALSE FALSE
## F.Undergrad FALSE FALSE
## P.Undergrad FALSE FALSE
## Room.Board FALSE FALSE
## Books FALSE FALSE
## Personal FALSE FALSE
## PhD FALSE FALSE
## Terminal FALSE FALSE
## S.F.Ratio FALSE FALSE
## perc.alumni FALSE FALSE
## Expend FALSE FALSE
## Grad.Rate FALSE FALSE
## 1 subsets of each size up to 17
## Selection Algorithm: exhaustive
## PrivateYes Apps Accept Enroll Top10perc Top25perc F.Undergrad
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err.fwd <- rep(NA, ncol(College)-1)
for(i in 1:(ncol(College)-1)) {
pred.fwd <- predict(fit.fwd, test, id=i)
err.fwd[i] <- mean((test$Outstate - pred.fwd)^2)
}
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(err.fwd, type="b", main="Test MSE", xlab="Number of Predictors")
min.mse <- which.min(err.fwd)
points(min.mse, err.fwd[min.mse], col="red", pch=4, lwd=5)
plot(fwd.summary$adjr2, type="b", main="Adjusted R^2", xlab="Number of Predictors")
max.adjr2 <- which.max(fwd.summary$adjr2)
points(max.adjr2, fwd.summary$adjr2[max.adjr2], col="red", pch=4, lwd=5)
plot(fwd.summary$cp, type="b", main="cp", xlab="Number of Predictors")
min.cp <- which.min(fwd.summary$cp)
points(min.cp, fwd.summary$cp[min.cp], col="red", pch=4, lwd=5)
plot(fwd.summary$bic, type="b", main="bic", xlab="Number of Predictors")
min.bic <- which.min(fwd.summary$bic)
points(min.bic, fwd.summary$bic[min.bic], col="red", pch=4, lwd=5)
# model metrics do not improve much after 6 predictors
coef(fit.fwd, 6)
## (Intercept) PrivateYes Room.Board Terminal perc.alumni
## -4241.4402916 2790.4303173 0.9629335 37.8412517 60.6406044
## Expend Grad.Rate
## 0.2149396 30.3831268
With all the scores its indicated that size 6 is the minimum siz for the given subset.
(b) Fit a GAM on the training data, using out-of-state tuition as the response and the features selected in the previous step as the predictors. Plot the results, and explain your findings.
library(gam)
## Warning: package 'gam' was built under R version 3.5.3
## Loading required package: splines
## Loading required package: foreach
## Warning: package 'foreach' was built under R version 3.5.3
## Loaded gam 1.16
gam.fit <- gam(Outstate ~
Private + # categorical variable
s(Room.Board,3) +
s(Terminal,3) +
s(perc.alumni,3) +
s(Expend,3) +
s(Grad.Rate,3),
data=College)
par(mfrow=c(2,3))
plot(gam.fit, se=TRUE, col="red")
(c) Evaluate the model obtained on the test set, and explain the results obtained.
pred <- predict(gam.fit, test)
(mse.error <- mean((test$Outstate - pred)^2))
## [1] 3587099
err.fwd[6]
## [1] 4357411
(d) For which variables, if any, is there evidence of a non-linear relationship with the response? The Anova test shows that there is a non linear relaionship between Expend and the response. Considering the p-value present there appears to be a relationship between Grad Rate and PhD.
summary(gam.fit)
##
## Call: gam(formula = Outstate ~ Private + s(Room.Board, 3) + s(Terminal,
## 3) + s(perc.alumni, 3) + s(Expend, 3) + s(Grad.Rate, 3),
## data = College)
## Deviance Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -7110.16 -1137.02 50.44 1285.38 8278.86
##
## (Dispersion Parameter for gaussian family taken to be 3520187)
##
## Null Deviance: 12559297426 on 776 degrees of freedom
## Residual Deviance: 2675342725 on 760.0001 degrees of freedom
## AIC: 13936.36
##
## Number of Local Scoring Iterations: 2
##
## Anova for Parametric Effects
## Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
## Private 1 3366732308 3366732308 956.407 < 2.2e-16 ***
## s(Room.Board, 3) 1 2549088628 2549088628 724.134 < 2.2e-16 ***
## s(Terminal, 3) 1 802254341 802254341 227.901 < 2.2e-16 ***
## s(perc.alumni, 3) 1 525154274 525154274 149.184 < 2.2e-16 ***
## s(Expend, 3) 1 1022010841 1022010841 290.329 < 2.2e-16 ***
## s(Grad.Rate, 3) 1 151344060 151344060 42.993 1.014e-10 ***
## Residuals 760 2675342725 3520187
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Anova for Nonparametric Effects
## Npar Df Npar F Pr(F)
## (Intercept)
## Private
## s(Room.Board, 3) 2 2.591 0.07557 .
## s(Terminal, 3) 2 2.558 0.07815 .
## s(perc.alumni, 3) 2 0.835 0.43446
## s(Expend, 3) 2 56.179 < 2e-16 ***
## s(Grad.Rate, 3) 2 3.363 0.03515 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1