details_discrim_flexible_earth: Flexible discriminant analysis via earth

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Flexible discriminant analysis via earth

Description

mda::fda() (in conjunction with earth::earth() can fit a nonlinear discriminant analysis model that uses nonlinear features created using multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS). This function can fit classification models.

Details

For this engine, there is a single mode: classification

Tuning Parameters

This model has 3 tuning parameter:

• num_terms: # Model Terms (type: integer, default: (see below))

• prod_degree: Degree of Interaction (type: integer, default: 1L)

• prune_method: Pruning Method (type: character, default: ‘backward’)

The default value of num_terms depends on the number of columns (p): min(200, max(20, 2 * p)) + 1. Note that num_terms = 1 is an intercept-only model.

Translation from parsnip to the original package

The discrim extension package is required to fit this model.

library(discrim)

discrim_flexible(
  num_terms = integer(0),
  prod_degree = integer(0),
  prune_method = character(0)
) |> 
  translate()

## Flexible Discriminant Model Specification (classification)
## 
## Main Arguments:
##   num_terms = integer(0)
##   prod_degree = integer(0)
##   prune_method = character(0)
## 
## Computational engine: earth 
## 
## Model fit template:
## mda::fda(formula = missing_arg(), data = missing_arg(), weights = missing_arg(), 
##     nprune = integer(0), degree = integer(0), pmethod = character(0), 
##     method = earth::earth)

Preprocessing requirements

Factor/categorical predictors need to be converted to numeric values (e.g., dummy or indicator variables) for this engine. When using the formula method via fit(), parsnip will convert factor columns to indicators.

Case weights

This model can utilize case weights during model fitting. To use them, see the documentation in case_weights and the examples on tidymodels.org.

The fit() and fit_xy() arguments have arguments called case_weights that expect vectors of case weights.

References

• Hastie, Tibshirani & Buja (1994) Flexible Discriminant Analysis by Optimal Scoring, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89:428, 1255-1270

• Friedman (1991). Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines. The Annals of Statistics, 19(1), 1-67.

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