Does the magnitude of the variable matter? In Linear Regression models, the scale of variables used to estimate the output matters. Linear models are of the type y = w x + b, where the regression coefficient w represents the expected change in y for a one unit change in x Read more…
An outlier is a data point which is significantly different from the remaining data. “An outlier is an observation which deviates so much from the other observations as to arouse suspicions that it was generated by a different mechanism.” [D. Hawkins. Identification of Outliers, Chapman and Hall , 1980.] Should Read more…
Linear models make the following assumptions over the independent variables X, used to predict Y: There is a linear relationship between X and the outcome Y The independent variables X are normally distributed There is no or little co-linearity among the independent variables Homoscedasticity (homogeneity of variance) Examples of linear Read more…
Labels that occur rarely Categorical variables are those whose values are selected from a group of categories, also called labels. Different labels appear in the dataset with different frequencies. Some categories appear more frequently in the dataset, whereas some other categories appear only in a few number of observations. For Read more…
Cardinality refers to the number of possible values that a feature can assume. For example, the variable “US State” is one that has 50 possible values. The binary features, of course, could only assume one of two values (0 or 1). The values of a categorical variable are selected from Read more…
Feature Selection and CNN In this project we are going to build a neural network to predict if a particular bank customer is satisfies or not. To do this we are going to use Convolutional Neural Networks. The dataset which we are going to use contains 370 features. We are going Read more…
Feature Selection Based on Univariate ROC_AUC for Classification and MSE for Regression Watch Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc2rvfiptPSQYzmDIFuq2PqN2n28ZjxDH What is ROC_AUC The Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve is well-known in evaluating classification performance. Owing to its superiority in dealing with imbalanced and cost-sensitive data, the ROC curve has been exploited as a Read more…
Feature Selection using Fisher Score and Chi2 (χ2) Test Watch Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc2rvfiptPSQYzmDIFuq2PqN2n28ZjxDH What is Fisher Score and Chi2 ( χ2) Test Fisher score is one of the most widely used supervised feature selection methods. However, it selects each feature independently according to their scores under the Fisher criterion, which Read more…
Feature Selection Based on Univariate (ANOVA) Test for Classification Watch Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc2rvfiptPSQYzmDIFuq2PqN2n28ZjxDH What is Univariate (ANOVA) Test The elimination process aims to reduce the size of the input feature set and at the same time to retain the class discriminatory information for classification problems. An F-test is any statistical Read more…
Watch Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc2rvfiptPSQYzmDIFuq2PqN2n28ZjxDH Linear Regression Let’s first understand what exactly linear regression is, it is a straight forward approach to predict the response y on the basis of different prediction variables such x and ε. . There is a linear relation between x and y. 𝑦𝑖 = 𝛽0 + Read more…
Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc2rvfiptPSQYzmDIFuq2PqN2n28ZjxDH As it’s name suggests, it eliminates the features recursively and build a model using remaining attributes then again calculates the model accuracy of the model..Moreover how it do it train the model on all the dataset and it tries to remove the least performing Read more…
Wrapping method Uses of Wrapping method Use combinations of variables to determine predictive power. To find the best combination of variables. Computationally expensive than filter method. To perform better than filter method. Not recommended on high number of features. Forward Step Selection In this wrapping method, it selects one best Read more…
What is Regularisation? Regularization adds a penalty on the different parameters of the model to reduce the freedom of the model. Hence, the model will be less likely to fit the noise of the training data and will improve the generalization abilities of the model. There are basically 3-types of Read more…