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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783982806
Pages 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Rui Miguel Forte Rui Miguel Forte
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Rui Miguel Forte Rui Miguel Forte
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Mastering Predictive Analytics with R
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Gearing Up for Predictive Modeling Linear Regression Logistic Regression Neural Networks Support Vector Machines Tree-based Methods Ensemble Methods Probabilistic Graphical Models Time Series Analysis Topic Modeling Recommendation Systems Index

Classification metrics


Although we looked at the test set accuracy for our model, we know from Chapter 1, Gearing Up for Predictive Modeling, that the binary confusion matrix can be used to compute a number of other useful performance metrics for our data, such as precision, recall, and the F measure.

We'll compute these for our training set now:

> (confusion_matrix <- table(predicted = train_class_predictions, actual = heart_train$OUTPUT))
         actual
predicted   0   1
        0 118  16
        1  10  86
> (precision <- confusion_matrix[2, 2] / sum(confusion_matrix[2,]))
[1] 0.8958333
> (recall <- confusion_matrix[2, 2] / sum(confusion_matrix[,2]))
[1] 0.8431373
> (f = 2 * precision * recall / (precision + recall))
[1] 0.8686869 

Here, we used the trick of bracketing our assignment statements to simultaneously assign the result of an expression to a variable and print out the value assigned. Now, recall is the ratio of correctly identified instances of class 1, divided...

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