corr_cross: Ranked cross-correlation across all variables

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Ranked cross-correlation across all variables

Description

This function creates a correlation full study and returns a rank of the highest correlation variables obtained in a cross-table.

Usage

corr_cross(
  df,
  plot = TRUE,
  pvalue = TRUE,
  max_pvalue = 1,
  type = 1,
  max = 1,
  top = 20,
  local = 1,
  ignore = NULL,
  contains = NA,
  grid = TRUE,
  rm.na = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

df	Dataframe. It doesn't matter if it's got non-numerical columns: they will be filtered.
plot	Boolean. Show and return a plot?
pvalue	Boolean. Returns a list, with correlations and statistical significance (p-value) for each value.
max_pvalue	Numeric. Filter non-significant variables. Range (0, 1]
type	Integer. Plot type. 1 is for overall rank. 2 is for local rank.
max	Numeric. Maximum correlation permitted (from 0 to 1)
top	Integer. Return top n results only. Only valid when type = 1. Set value to NA to use all cross-correlations
local	Integer. Label top n local correlations. Only valid when type = 2
ignore	Vector or character. Which column should be ignored?
contains	Character vector. Filter cross-correlations with variables that contains certain strings (using any value if vector used).
grid	Boolean. Separate into grids?
rm.na	Boolean. Remove NAs?
quiet	Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, informative messages will be shown.
...	Additional parameters passed to corr

Details

DataScience+ Post: Find Insights with Ranked Cross-Correlations

Value

Depending on input plot, we get correlation and p-value results for every combination of features, arranged by descending absolute correlation value, with a data.frame plot = FALSE or plot plot = TRUE.

See Also

Other Correlations: corr(), corr_var()

Other Exploratory: corr_var(), crosstab(), df_str(), distr(), freqs(), freqs_df(), freqs_list(), freqs_plot(), lasso_vars(), missingness(), plot_cats(), plot_df(), plot_nums(), tree_var()

Examples

Sys.unsetenv("LARES_FONT") # Temporal
data(dft) # Titanic dataset

# Only data with no plot
corr_cross(dft, plot = FALSE, top = 10)

# Show only most relevant results filtered by pvalue
corr_cross(dft, rm.na = TRUE, max_pvalue = 0.05, top = 15)

# Cross-Correlation for certain variables
corr_cross(dft, contains = c("Survived", "Fare"))

# Cross-Correlation max values per category
corr_cross(dft, type = 2, top = NA)

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