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Francisco Juretig
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Francisco Juretig has worked for over a decade in a variety of industries such as retail, gambling and finance deploying data-science solutions. He has written several R packages, and is a frequent contributor to the open source community.
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Working with LASSO

In the previous recipe, we saw that Ridge Regression gives us much more stable coefficients, at the cost of a small bias (the coefficients are compressed to a smaller size than they should). It is based on the L2 regularization norm, which is essentially the squared sum of the coefficients. In order to do that, we used the glmnet package, which allows us to decide how much Ridge/Lasso regularization we want.

Getting ready

Lets install same packages as in the previous recipe: glmnet, ggplot2, tidyr, and MASS. They can be installed via install.packages().

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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789802566

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Francisco Juretig

Francisco Juretig has worked for over a decade in a variety of industries such as retail, gambling and finance deploying data-science solutions. He has written several R packages, and is a frequent contributor to the open source community.
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