Question 2:

Carefully explain the differences between the KNN classifier and KNN regression methods.

The KNN classifier is used to solve classification problems(where categorial variable as used) to predict point to a class for conditional probability P( Y= j| X = x0) where j = fracton of points in the neighborhood. On the other hand, KNN regression method is used to solve regression problems with quantitative response by identifying neighborhood of x0. It estimates f(x0) by average of training responses in the neighborhood.

Question 9

This question involves the use of multiple linear regression on the “Auto” data set.

a).Produce a scatterplot matrix which include all the variables in the data set.

library(ISLR)
## Warning: package 'ISLR' was built under R version 4.0.2
data(Auto)
pairs(Auto)

  1. Compute the matrix of correlations between the variables using the function cor(). You will need to exclude the name variable, which is qualitative.
names(Auto)
## [1] "mpg"          "cylinders"    "displacement" "horsepower"   "weight"      
## [6] "acceleration" "year"         "origin"       "name"
cor(Auto[1:8])
##                     mpg  cylinders displacement horsepower     weight
## mpg           1.0000000 -0.7776175   -0.8051269 -0.7784268 -0.8322442
## cylinders    -0.7776175  1.0000000    0.9508233  0.8429834  0.8975273
## displacement -0.8051269  0.9508233    1.0000000  0.8972570  0.9329944
## horsepower   -0.7784268  0.8429834    0.8972570  1.0000000  0.8645377
## weight       -0.8322442  0.8975273    0.9329944  0.8645377  1.0000000
## acceleration  0.4233285 -0.5046834   -0.5438005 -0.6891955 -0.4168392
## year          0.5805410 -0.3456474   -0.3698552 -0.4163615 -0.3091199
## origin        0.5652088 -0.5689316   -0.6145351 -0.4551715 -0.5850054
##              acceleration       year     origin
## mpg             0.4233285  0.5805410  0.5652088
## cylinders      -0.5046834 -0.3456474 -0.5689316
## displacement   -0.5438005 -0.3698552 -0.6145351
## horsepower     -0.6891955 -0.4163615 -0.4551715
## weight         -0.4168392 -0.3091199 -0.5850054
## acceleration    1.0000000  0.2903161  0.2127458
## year            0.2903161  1.0000000  0.1815277
## origin          0.2127458  0.1815277  1.0000000
  1. Use the lm() function to perform a multiple linear regression with mpg as the response and all other variables except name as the predictors. Use the summary() function to print the results. Comment on the output. For instance:
  1. Is there a relationship between the predictors and the response?
fit1 <- lm(mpg ~ . -name, data = Auto)
summary(fit1)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = mpg ~ . - name, data = Auto)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -9.5903 -2.1565 -0.1169  1.8690 13.0604 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)  -17.218435   4.644294  -3.707  0.00024 ***
## cylinders     -0.493376   0.323282  -1.526  0.12780    
## displacement   0.019896   0.007515   2.647  0.00844 ** 
## horsepower    -0.016951   0.013787  -1.230  0.21963    
## weight        -0.006474   0.000652  -9.929  < 2e-16 ***
## acceleration   0.080576   0.098845   0.815  0.41548    
## year           0.750773   0.050973  14.729  < 2e-16 ***
## origin         1.426141   0.278136   5.127 4.67e-07 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 3.328 on 384 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.8215, Adjusted R-squared:  0.8182 
## F-statistic: 252.4 on 7 and 384 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

we get the p value as:2.037105910^{-139} which indicates significant relation between mpg and other predictors.

  1. Which predictors appear to have a statistically significant relationship to the response? all predictors are statistically significant except ‘cylinders’, ‘horsepower’ and ‘acceleration’.

  2. What does the coefficient for the year variable suggest? The average effect of an increase of 1 year is an increase of 0.7507727 in ‘mpg’ while other predictors are constant.

  1. Use the plot() function to produce diagnostic plots of the linear regression fit. Comment on any problems you see with the fit. Do the residual plots suggest any unusually large outliers? Does the leverage plot identify any observations with unusually high leverage?
par(mfrow = c(2,2))
plot(fit1)

From the above plots, we can see the presence of non linearity in the data. Plot of std. residuals versus leverage indicates the presence of a few outliers and one high leverage point.

  1. Use the * and : symbols to fit linear regression models with interaction effects. Do any interactions appear to be statistically significant ?
fit2 <- lm(mpg ~ cylinders * displacement+displacement * weight, data = Auto[, 1:8])
summary(fit2)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = mpg ~ cylinders * displacement + displacement * 
##     weight, data = Auto[, 1:8])
## 
## Residuals:
##      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
## -13.2934  -2.5184  -0.3476   1.8399  17.7723 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                          Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)             5.262e+01  2.237e+00  23.519  < 2e-16 ***
## cylinders               7.606e-01  7.669e-01   0.992    0.322    
## displacement           -7.351e-02  1.669e-02  -4.403 1.38e-05 ***
## weight                 -9.888e-03  1.329e-03  -7.438 6.69e-13 ***
## cylinders:displacement -2.986e-03  3.426e-03  -0.872    0.384    
## displacement:weight     2.128e-05  5.002e-06   4.254 2.64e-05 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 4.103 on 386 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.7272, Adjusted R-squared:  0.7237 
## F-statistic: 205.8 on 5 and 386 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

P-value indicates there is interaction of displacement and weight which is very significant. ON the other hand, relation between cylinders and displacement is not very significant.

  1. Try a few different transformatins of the variables, such as log (x), √x, X2. Comment on your findings.
par(mfrow = c(2,2))
plot(log(Auto$horsepower),   Auto$mpg)
plot(sqrt(Auto$horsepower),  Auto$mpg)
plot((Auto$horsepower)^2,    Auto$mpg)

\ We can see that the log transformation gave more linear plot for representation.

Q10. use Carseats dataset

  1. Fit a multiple regressin model to predict Sales using Price, Urban, and US.
data(Carseats)
fit3<-lm(Sales ~ Price +Urban +US, data = Carseats)
summary(fit3)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = Sales ~ Price + Urban + US, data = Carseats)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -6.9206 -1.6220 -0.0564  1.5786  7.0581 
## 
## Coefficients:
##              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 13.043469   0.651012  20.036  < 2e-16 ***
## Price       -0.054459   0.005242 -10.389  < 2e-16 ***
## UrbanYes    -0.021916   0.271650  -0.081    0.936    
## USYes        1.200573   0.259042   4.635 4.86e-06 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 2.472 on 396 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2393, Adjusted R-squared:  0.2335 
## F-statistic: 41.52 on 3 and 396 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
  1. Provide an interpretation of each coefficient in the model. Be careful - some of the variables in the model are qualitative ! ** For every 1 dollar increase in price, there will be decrease of 54.4588492 units in sales (while other remains fixed) ** Urban location sales are less by 21.91 units as compared to rural location (while others are fixed) ** The unit sales in a US store are 1200.57 units more than in a not US store.

  2. equation: Sales = 13.043469 + (-0.0544588) * Price +(-0.0219162) * Urban + (1.2005727) * US + E

  3. Yes we reject null hypothesis in this case

fit4 <- lm(Sales ~ Price + US, data = Carseats)
summary(fit4)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = Sales ~ Price + US, data = Carseats)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -6.9269 -1.6286 -0.0574  1.5766  7.0515 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept) 13.03079    0.63098  20.652  < 2e-16 ***
## Price       -0.05448    0.00523 -10.416  < 2e-16 ***
## USYes        1.19964    0.25846   4.641 4.71e-06 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 2.469 on 397 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2393, Adjusted R-squared:  0.2354 
## F-statistic: 62.43 on 2 and 397 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
  1. The smaller model is better by 23.926%
confint(fit4)
##                   2.5 %      97.5 %
## (Intercept) 11.79032020 14.27126531
## Price       -0.06475984 -0.04419543
## USYes        0.69151957  1.70776632
par(mfrow = c(2,2))
plot(fit4)

After analyzing the above figures, we can say that there are only few outliers(>2,<-2) and some leverage points as some points exceed(p+1)/n (0.01)

Question 12

  1. The coefficients are same only if : The coefficients are same only if

  2. Generate an example in R with n=100 observations in which the coefficient estimate for the regression of X onto Y is different from the coefficient estimate for the regression of Y onto X.

set.seed(1)
x <- 1: 100
sum(x^2)
## [1] 338350
y <- 2 * x + rnorm (100, sd = 0.1)
sum(y^2)
## [1] 1353606
fit.x <- lm(x ~ y + 0)
fit.y <- lm(y ~ x + 0)
summary(fit.x)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = x ~ y + 0)
## 
## Residuals:
##       Min        1Q    Median        3Q       Max 
## -0.115418 -0.029231 -0.002186  0.031322  0.111795 
## 
## Coefficients:
##   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## y 5.00e-01   3.87e-05   12920   <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 0.04502 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:      1,  Adjusted R-squared:      1 
## F-statistic: 1.669e+08 on 1 and 99 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
summary(fit.y)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x + 0)
## 
## Residuals:
##       Min        1Q    Median        3Q       Max 
## -0.223590 -0.062560  0.004426  0.058507  0.230926 
## 
## Coefficients:
##    Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## x 2.0001514  0.0001548   12920   <2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 0.09005 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:      1,  Adjusted R-squared:      1 
## F-statistic: 1.669e+08 on 1 and 99 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
  1. Generate an example in R with n = 100 observations in which the coefficient estimate for the regression fo X onto Y is the same as the coefficient for thre regression of Y onto X.
x <- 1:100
sum(x^2)
## [1] 338350
y<- 100:1
sum(y^2)
## [1] 338350
fit.x <- lm(x ~ y + 0)
summary(fit.x)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = x ~ y + 0)
## 
## Residuals:
##    Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max 
## -49.75 -12.44  24.87  62.18  99.49 
## 
## Coefficients:
##   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## y   0.5075     0.0866    5.86 6.09e-08 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 50.37 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2575, Adjusted R-squared:   0.25 
## F-statistic: 34.34 on 1 and 99 DF,  p-value: 6.094e-08
fit.y<-lm(y ~ x +0)
summary(fit.y)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = y ~ x + 0)
## 
## Residuals:
##    Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max 
## -49.75 -12.44  24.87  62.18  99.49 
## 
## Coefficients:
##   Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## x   0.5075     0.0866    5.86 6.09e-08 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 50.37 on 99 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared:  0.2575, Adjusted R-squared:   0.25 
## F-statistic: 34.34 on 1 and 99 DF,  p-value: 6.094e-08