5.

We have seen that we can fit an SVM with a non-linear kernel in order to perform classification using a non-linear decision boundary. We will now see that we can also obtain a non-linear decision boundary by performing logistic regression using non-linear transformations of the features.

(a)

Generate a data set with n = 500 and p = 2, such that the observations belong to two classes with a quadratic decision boundary between them. For instance, you can do this as follows:

x1=runif (500) -0.5
x2=runif (500) -0.5
y=1*(x1^2-x2^2 > 0)

(b)

Plot the observations, colored according to their class labels. Your plot should display X1 on the x-axis, and X2 on the y-axis.

plot(x1, x2, xlab = "x1", ylab = "x2", col = (2 - y), pch = (3 - y))

  1. Fit a logistic regression model to the data, using X1 and X2 as predictors.
log.x = glm(y ~ x1 + x2, family = 'binomial')
summary(log.x)
## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = y ~ x1 + x2, family = "binomial")
## 
## Deviance Residuals: 
##    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max  
## -1.282  -1.148  -1.041   1.154   1.361  
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)  
## (Intercept) -0.06915    0.08995  -0.769   0.4420  
## x1           0.68016    0.31971   2.127   0.0334 *
## x2          -0.04831    0.31364  -0.154   0.8776  
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 692.64  on 499  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 687.96  on 497  degrees of freedom
## AIC: 693.96
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 3

(d)

Apply this model to the training data in order to obtain a predicted class label for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels. The decision boundary should be linear.

glm.pred = predict(log.x,data.frame(x1,x2))
plot(x1,x2,col=ifelse(glm.pred>0,'red','black'),pch=ifelse(as.integer(glm.pred>0) == y,1,4))

### (e) Now fit a logistic regression model to the data using non-linear functions of X1 and X2 as predictors (e.g. X2 1 , X1×X2, log(X2), and so forth).

log.non = glm(y ~ log(x2) + x1*x2, data=data.frame(x1,x2,y), family = 'binomial')
summary(log.non)
## 
## Call:
## glm(formula = y ~ log(x2) + x1 * x2, family = "binomial", data = data.frame(x1, 
##     x2, y))
## 
## Deviance Residuals: 
##     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max  
## -2.4826  -0.7489  -0.3014   0.7827   2.3835  
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)  
## (Intercept)  -1.0003     2.1272  -0.470   0.6382  
## log(x2)      -1.2451     0.7828  -1.591   0.1117  
## x1           -1.2124     1.3313  -0.911   0.3624  
## x2           -4.2499     3.8560  -1.102   0.2704  
## x1:x2         8.0103     4.7487   1.687   0.0916 .
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## (Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)
## 
##     Null deviance: 342.09  on 246  degrees of freedom
## Residual deviance: 235.72  on 242  degrees of freedom
##   (253 observations deleted due to missingness)
## AIC: 245.72
## 
## Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 6

(f)

Apply this model to the training data in order to obtain a predicted class label for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels. The decision boundary should be obviously non-linear. If it is not, then repeat (a)-(e) until you come up with an example in which the predicted class labels are obviously non-linear.

non.pred = predict(log.non,data.frame(x1,x2))
plot(x1,x2,col=ifelse(non.pred>0,'red','blue'),pch=ifelse(as.integer(non.pred>0) == y,1,4))

(g)

Fit a support vector classifier to the data with X1 and X2 as predictors. Obtain a class prediction for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels.

svm.x = svm(y ~ x1 + x2,data = data.frame(x1,x2,y=as.factor(y)), kernel ='linear')
svm.pred = predict(svm.x, data.frame(x1,x2), type='response')
plot(x1,x2,col=ifelse(svm.pred!=0,'red','pink'),pch=ifelse(svm.pred == y,1,4))

(h)

Fit a SVM using a non-linear kernel to the data. Obtain a class prediction for each training observation. Plot the observations, colored according to the predicted class labels.

svm.non = svm(y~., data = data.frame(x1,x2,y=as.factor(y)), kernel = 'polynomial', degree = 2)
svm.pred.non = predict(svm.non, data.frame(x1,x2), type = 'response')
plot(x1,x2,col=ifelse(svm.pred.non!= 0,'red','blue'),pch=ifelse(svm.pred.non == y,1,4))

### (i) Comment on your results.

##7 In this problem, you will use support vector approaches in order to predict whether a given car gets high or low gas mileage based on the Auto data set.

(a)

Create a binary variable that takes on a 1 for cars with gas mileage above the median, and a 0 for cars with gas mileage below the median.

head(Auto)
##   mpg cylinders displacement horsepower weight acceleration year origin
## 1  18         8          307        130   3504         12.0   70      1
## 2  15         8          350        165   3693         11.5   70      1
## 3  18         8          318        150   3436         11.0   70      1
## 4  16         8          304        150   3433         12.0   70      1
## 5  17         8          302        140   3449         10.5   70      1
## 6  15         8          429        198   4341         10.0   70      1
##                        name
## 1 chevrolet chevelle malibu
## 2         buick skylark 320
## 3        plymouth satellite
## 4             amc rebel sst
## 5               ford torino
## 6          ford galaxie 500

(b)

Fit a support vector classifier to the data with various values of cost, in order to predict whether a car gets high or low gas mileage. Report the cross-validation errors associated with different values of this parameter. Comment on your results.

Looking at the summary of the tuned variable we return a best performance of 0.01025641 at a cost of 61.

Auto$mpg=ifelse(Auto$mpg>median(Auto$mpg),1,0)

(b)

Fit a support vector classifier to the data with various values of cost, in order to predict whether a car gets high or low gas mileage. Report the cross-validation errors associated with different values of this parameter. Comment on your results.

Looking at the summary of the tuned variable we return a best performance of 0.01025641 at a cost of 61.

set.seed(1)
tuned = tune.svm(mpg ~ ., data = Auto, cost = seq(1,300, by = 10))
summary(tuned)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##   151
## 
## - best performance: 0.08027368 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost      error dispersion
## 1     1 0.09803436 0.02818832
## 2    11 0.08966653 0.03678376
## 3    21 0.08771550 0.03754872
## 4    31 0.08664265 0.03796920
## 5    41 0.08583445 0.03802468
## 6    51 0.08521585 0.03798571
## 7    61 0.08457807 0.03788690
## 8    71 0.08385876 0.03777741
## 9    81 0.08321047 0.03763776
## 10   91 0.08243934 0.03709781
## 11  101 0.08169968 0.03639614
## 12  111 0.08116540 0.03585953
## 13  121 0.08069894 0.03534477
## 14  131 0.08043757 0.03490563
## 15  141 0.08033816 0.03457919
## 16  151 0.08027368 0.03429429
## 17  161 0.08028669 0.03427671
## 18  171 0.08050120 0.03455322
## 19  181 0.08063484 0.03455296
## 20  191 0.08070245 0.03453761
## 21  201 0.08066474 0.03446414
## 22  211 0.08062178 0.03441694
## 23  221 0.08056807 0.03436599
## 24  231 0.08052403 0.03431236
## 25  241 0.08050212 0.03427968
## 26  251 0.08048468 0.03427810
## 27  261 0.08045788 0.03429389
## 28  271 0.08043432 0.03432569
## 29  281 0.08040802 0.03436037
## 30  291 0.08037717 0.03439934
tuned$best.parameters
##    cost
## 16  151
  1. Now repeat (b), this time using SVMs with radial and polynomial basis kernels, with different values of gamma and degree and cost. Comment on your results.
set.seed(1)

tune.again = tune.svm(mpg ~ ., data = Auto, kernal = 'polynomial', gamma = seq(1,100, by =10), cost = seq(1,100, by = 10), degree = c(2,5,9),scale = T)
summary(tune.again)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  degree gamma cost
##       2     1    1
## 
## - best performance: 0.09918732 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##     degree gamma cost      error  dispersion
## 1        2     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
## 2        5     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
## 3        9     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
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tune.again$best.parameters
##   degree gamma cost
## 1      2     1    1
set.seed(1)

tune.again.rad = tune.svm(mpg ~ ., data = Auto, kernal = 'radial', gamma = seq(1,1000, by =100), cost = seq(1,1000, by = 100), degree = c(3,4,5))
summary(tune.again.rad)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  degree gamma cost
##       3     1    1
## 
## - best performance: 0.09918732 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##     degree gamma cost      error  dispersion
## 1        3     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
## 2        4     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
## 3        5     1    1 0.09918732 0.020523476
## 4        3   101    1 0.25090220 0.001404450
## 5        4   101    1 0.25090220 0.001404450
## 6        5   101    1 0.25090220 0.001404450
## 7        3   201    1 0.25090515 0.001407231
## 8        4   201    1 0.25090515 0.001407231
## 9        5   201    1 0.25090515 0.001407231
## 10       3   301    1 0.25090515 0.001407233
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tune.again.rad$best.parameters
##   degree gamma cost
## 1      3     1    1

(d)

Make some plots to back up your assertions in (b) and (c).

dim(tune.again$performances)
## [1] 300   5
plot(tune.again$performances[,c(1,5)])

8.

This problem involves the OJ data set which is part of the ISLR package.

(a)

Create a training set containing a random sample of 800 observations, and a test set containing the remaining observations.

set.seed(1)
index = sample(nrow(OJ), 800)
train.oj = OJ[index, ]
test.oj = OJ[-index, ]

(b)

Fit a support vector classifier to the training data using cost=0.01, with Purchase as the response and the other variables as predictors. Use the summary() function to produce summary statistics, and describe the results obtained.

The summary of the svm tells us that the svm chose 435 variables out of the 800 in the training set. 219 belong to CH awhile 216 belong to MM.

svm.oj <- svm(Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "linear", cost = 0.01)
summary(svm.oj)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "linear", cost = 0.01)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  linear 
##        cost:  0.01 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  435
## 
##  ( 219 216 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

(c)

What are the training and test error rates?

Training error rate: .175 Test error rate: .177

pred.svm.train = predict(svm.oj, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, pred.svm.train)
##     pred.svm.train
##       CH  MM
##   CH 420  65
##   MM  75 240
(75 + 65) / (420 + 240 + 75 + 65)
## [1] 0.175
pred.svm.test = predict(svm.oj, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, pred.svm.test)
##     pred.svm.test
##       CH  MM
##   CH 153  15
##   MM  33  69
(33 + 15) / (153 + 69 + 33 + 15)
## [1] 0.1777778

(d)

Use the tune() function to select an optimal cost. Consider values in the range 0.01 to 10.

set.seed(1)
tune.oj <- tune.svm(Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "linear", cost = seq(1,10, by = 1))
summary(tune.oj)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##     3
## 
## - best performance: 0.16875 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost   error dispersion
## 1     1 0.17500 0.02946278
## 2     2 0.17250 0.02874698
## 3     3 0.16875 0.03019037
## 4     4 0.17000 0.02958040
## 5     5 0.17250 0.03162278
## 6     6 0.17500 0.03333333
## 7     7 0.17500 0.03333333
## 8     8 0.17375 0.03197764
## 9     9 0.17375 0.03197764
## 10   10 0.17375 0.03197764

(e)

Compute the training and test error rates using this new value for cost.

Training error: .166 Test error: .159

svm.tune.oj = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "linear", data = train.oj, cost = tune.oj$best.parameter$cost)
pred.train.tune = predict(svm.tune.oj, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, pred.train.tune)
##     pred.train.tune
##       CH  MM
##   CH 422  63
##   MM  70 245
(70 + 63) / (422 + 245 + 63 +70)
## [1] 0.16625
svm.tune.oj = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "linear", data = test.oj, cost = tune.oj$best.parameter$cost)
pred.test.tune = predict(svm.tune.oj, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, pred.test.tune)
##     pred.test.tune
##       CH  MM
##   CH 153  15
##   MM  28  74
(28 + 15) / (153 + 74 + 28 +15)
## [1] 0.1592593

(f)

373 variables chosen. 188 to CH 185 to MM

svm.radial = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "radial", data = train.oj)
summary(svm.radial)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "radial")
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  radial 
##        cost:  1 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  373
## 
##  ( 188 185 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Training error: .151 Test error: .185

pred.radial = predict(svm.radial, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, pred.radial)
##     pred.radial
##       CH  MM
##   CH 441  44
##   MM  77 238
(77 + 44) / (441 + 238 + 77 + 44)
## [1] 0.15125
pred.radial.test = predict(svm.radial, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, pred.radial.test)
##     pred.radial.test
##       CH  MM
##   CH 151  17
##   MM  33  69
(33 + 17) / (151 + 69 + 33 + 17)
## [1] 0.1851852

We get a best performance of .171 with a cost of 1.

set.seed(1)
tune.radial = tune.svm(Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "radial", cost = seq(1,10, by = 1))
summary(tune.radial)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  cost
##     1
## 
## - best performance: 0.17125 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    cost   error dispersion
## 1     1 0.17125 0.02128673
## 2     2 0.17750 0.02188988
## 3     3 0.17625 0.02239947
## 4     4 0.18125 0.02301117
## 5     5 0.18000 0.02220485
## 6     6 0.18000 0.02220485
## 7     7 0.18375 0.02503470
## 8     8 0.18250 0.02648375
## 9     9 0.18375 0.02703521
## 10   10 0.18625 0.02853482

The svm chooses 373 variables. 188 to CH 185 to MM

svm.radial2 = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "radial", data = train.oj, cost = tune.radial$best.parameter$cost)
summary(svm.radial2)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "radial", cost = tune.radial$best.parameter$cost)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  radial 
##        cost:  1 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  373
## 
##  ( 188 185 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Training error: .151 Test error: .185

train.pred = predict(svm.radial2, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, train.pred)
##     train.pred
##       CH  MM
##   CH 441  44
##   MM  77 238
(77 + 44) / (441 + 238 + 77 + 44)
## [1] 0.15125
test.pred = predict(svm.radial2, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, test.pred)
##     test.pred
##       CH  MM
##   CH 151  17
##   MM  33  69
(33 + 17) / (151 + 69 + 33 +17)
## [1] 0.1851852

(g)

Repeat parts (b) through (e) using a support vector machine with a polynomial kernel. Set degree=2.

The svm chooses 447 variables 225 to CH and 222 to MM

svm.poly = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "polynomial", data = train.oj, degree = 2)
summary(svm.poly)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "polynomial", 
##     degree = 2)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  polynomial 
##        cost:  1 
##      degree:  2 
##      coef.0:  0 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  447
## 
##  ( 225 222 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Training error: .182 Test error: .22

train.pred.poly = predict(svm.poly, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, train.pred.poly)
##     train.pred.poly
##       CH  MM
##   CH 449  36
##   MM 110 205
(110 + 36) / (449 + 205 + 110 + 36)
## [1] 0.1825
test.pred.poly = predict(svm.poly, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, test.pred.poly)
##     test.pred.poly
##       CH  MM
##   CH 153  15
##   MM  45  57
(45 + 15) / (153 + 57 + 45 + 15)
## [1] 0.2222222

With a cost variable we get a best performance of .176 with a cost of 3

set.seed(1)
tune.poly = tune.svm(Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "polynomial", degree = 2, cost = seq(1,10, by = 1))
summary(tune.poly)
## 
## Parameter tuning of 'svm':
## 
## - sampling method: 10-fold cross validation 
## 
## - best parameters:
##  degree cost
##       2    3
## 
## - best performance: 0.17625 
## 
## - Detailed performance results:
##    degree cost   error dispersion
## 1       2    1 0.20250 0.04116363
## 2       2    2 0.18125 0.04177070
## 3       2    3 0.17625 0.03793727
## 4       2    4 0.18250 0.03395258
## 5       2    5 0.18250 0.03496029
## 6       2    6 0.18625 0.03304563
## 7       2    7 0.18500 0.03162278
## 8       2    8 0.18000 0.03395258
## 9       2    9 0.17750 0.02751262
## 10      2   10 0.18125 0.02779513

With the best parameters the svm selects 384 variables. 197 to CH and 187 to MM

svm.poly2 = svm(Purchase ~ ., kernel = "polynomial", degree = 2, data = train.oj, cost = tune.poly$best.parameter$cost)
summary(svm.poly2)
## 
## Call:
## svm(formula = Purchase ~ ., data = train.oj, kernel = "polynomial", 
##     degree = 2, cost = tune.poly$best.parameter$cost)
## 
## 
## Parameters:
##    SVM-Type:  C-classification 
##  SVM-Kernel:  polynomial 
##        cost:  3 
##      degree:  2 
##      coef.0:  0 
## 
## Number of Support Vectors:  384
## 
##  ( 197 187 )
## 
## 
## Number of Classes:  2 
## 
## Levels: 
##  CH MM

Training error: .153 Test error: .203

train.pred2 = predict(svm.poly2, train.oj)
table(train.oj$Purchase, train.pred2)
##     train.pred2
##       CH  MM
##   CH 452  33
##   MM  90 225
(90 + 33) / (452 + 225 + 90 + 33)
## [1] 0.15375
test.pred2 = predict(svm.poly2, test.oj)
table(test.oj$Purchase, test.pred2)
##     test.pred2
##       CH  MM
##   CH 153  15
##   MM  40  62
(40 + 15) / (153 + 62 + 40 + 15)
## [1] 0.2037037

(h)

Overall, which approach seems to give the best results on this data? The best over all test and training error rates came when we computed the training and test error rates using the linear kernal with the cost function.