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Tag: caret
Among most popular off-the-shelf machine learning packages available to R, caret ought to stand out for its consistency. It reaches out to a wide range of dependencies that deploy and support model building using a uniform, simple syntax. I have been using caret extensively for the past three years, with a precious partial least squares (PLS) tutorial in … Continue reading The tidy caret interface in R
My last entry introduces principal component analysis (PCA), one of many unsupervised learning tools. I concluded the post with a demonstration of principal component regression (PCR), which essentially is a ordinary least squares (OLS) fit using the first $latex k &s=1$ principal components (PCs) from the predictors. This brings about many advantages: There is virtually no … Continue reading Partial least squares in R
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