#Chapter 8 Excercises ##3 Consider the Gini index, classification error, and entropy in a simple classification setting with two classes. Create a single plot that displays each of these quantities as a function of ˆpm1. The xaxis should display ˆpm1, ranging from 0 to 1, and the y-axis should display the value of the Gini index, classification error, and entropy. Hint: In a setting with two classes, pˆm1 = 1 − pˆm2. You could make this plot by hand, but it will be much easier to make in R
p = seq(0, 1, 0.01)
gini = p * (1 - p) * 2
entropy = -(p * log(p) + (1 - p) * log(1 - p))
class.err = 1 - pmax(p, 1 - p)
matplot(p, cbind(gini, entropy, class.err), col = c("blue", "yellow", "red"))
##8 In the lab, a classification tree was applied to the Carseats data set after converting Sales into a qualitative response variable. Now we will seek to predict Sales using regression trees and related approaches, treating the response as a quantitative variable.
(a) Split the data set into a training set and a test set.
(b) Fit a regression tree to the training set. Plot the tree, and interpret the results. What test MSE do you obtain?
MSE=4.15
(c) Use cross-validation in order to determine the optimal level of tree complexity. Does pruning the tree improve the test MSE?
Pruning does increase the test mse
(d) Use the bagging approach in order to analyze this data. What test MSE do you obtain? Use the importance() function to determine which variables are most important.
MSE=2.58
(e) Use random forests to analyze this data. What test MSE do you obtain? Use the importance() function to determine which variables are most important. Describe the effect of m, the number of variables considered at each split, on the error rate obtained.
MSE=2.87
library(ISLR)
## Warning: package 'ISLR' was built under R version 3.6.3
library(tree)
attach(Carseats)
#a
train = sample(dim(Carseats)[1], dim(Carseats)[1]/2)
Carseats.train = Carseats[train, ]
Carseats.test = Carseats[-train, ]
#b
tree.carseats = tree(Sales ~ ., data = Carseats.train)
summary(tree.carseats)
##
## Regression tree:
## tree(formula = Sales ~ ., data = Carseats.train)
## Variables actually used in tree construction:
## [1] "ShelveLoc" "Price" "Income" "Age" "US"
## [6] "CompPrice" "Advertising" "Education"
## Number of terminal nodes: 19
## Residual mean deviance: 2.066 = 374 / 181
## Distribution of residuals:
## Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
## -4.15000 -0.98470 -0.09649 0.00000 1.08500 3.94700
plot(tree.carseats)
text(tree.carseats, pretty = 0)
pred.carseats = predict(tree.carseats, Carseats.test)
mean((Carseats.test$Sales - pred.carseats)^2)
## [1] 4.856001
#c
cv.carseats = cv.tree(tree.carseats, FUN = prune.tree)
par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
plot(cv.carseats$size, cv.carseats$dev, type = "b")
plot(cv.carseats$k, cv.carseats$dev, type = "b")
pruned.carseats = prune.tree(tree.carseats, best = 9)
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
plot(pruned.carseats)
text(pruned.carseats, pretty = 0)
pred.pruned = predict(pruned.carseats, Carseats.test)
mean((Carseats.test$Sales - pred.pruned)^2)
## [1] 5.128288
#d
library(randomForest)
## randomForest 4.6-14
## Type rfNews() to see new features/changes/bug fixes.
bag.carseats = randomForest(Sales ~ ., data = Carseats.train, mtry = 10, ntree = 500, importance = T)
bag.pred = predict(bag.carseats, Carseats.test)
mean((Carseats.test$Sales - bag.pred)^2)
## [1] 2.749849
importance(bag.carseats)
## %IncMSE IncNodePurity
## CompPrice 12.8359480 96.428371
## Income 14.9855997 125.371489
## Advertising 12.3036056 104.449996
## Population 1.1834179 56.149668
## Price 49.7044297 473.928705
## ShelveLoc 58.3684987 466.482589
## Age 18.5688579 138.987433
## Education -0.5051797 53.060795
## Urban 0.2409256 5.042336
## US 3.0143045 10.219389
#e
rf.carseats = randomForest(Sales ~ ., data = Carseats.train, mtry = 5, ntree = 500, importance = T)
rf.pred = predict(rf.carseats, Carseats.test)
mean((Carseats.test$Sales - rf.pred)^2)
## [1] 2.932975
importance(rf.carseats)
## %IncMSE IncNodePurity
## CompPrice 12.29170163 109.561603
## Income 9.65124556 137.610766
## Advertising 10.54743712 121.635917
## Population -0.05312127 74.644027
## Price 41.75383431 413.021534
## ShelveLoc 49.19028163 421.432977
## Age 14.07819444 151.443093
## Education 1.28228844 61.701607
## Urban 0.04296581 8.399897
## US 2.54386660 13.452251