maxent: MaxEnt model

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MaxEnt model

Description

maxent defines the MaxEnt model as used in Species Distribution Models. A good guide to how options of a MaxEnt model work can be found in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.07872.x

Usage

maxent(
  mode = "classification",
  engine = "maxnet",
  feature_classes = NULL,
  regularization_multiplier = NULL
)

Arguments

mode	A single character string for the type of model. The only possible value for this model is "classification".
engine	A single character string specifying what computational engine to use for fitting. Currently only "maxnet" is available.
feature_classes	character, continuous feature classes desired, either "default" or any subset of "lqpht" (for example, "lh")
regularization_multiplier	numeric, a constant to adjust regularization

Value

a parsnip::model_spec for a maxent model

Examples

# format the data
data("bradypus", package = "maxnet")
bradypus_tb <- tibble::as_tibble(bradypus) %>%
  dplyr::mutate(presence = relevel(
    factor(
      dplyr::case_match(presence, 1 ~ "presence", 0 ~ "absence")
    ),
    ref = "presence"
  )) %>%
  select(-ecoreg)

# fit the model, and make some predictions
maxent_spec <- maxent(feature_classes = "lq")
maxent_fitted <- maxent_spec %>%
  fit(presence ~ ., data = bradypus_tb)
pred_prob <- predict(maxent_fitted,
  new_data = bradypus[, -1],
  type = "prob"
)
pred_class <- predict(maxent_fitted,
  new_data = bradypus[, -1],
  type = "class"
)

# Now with tuning
maxent_spec <- maxent(
  regularization_multiplier = tune::tune(),
  feature_classes = tune::tune()
)
set.seed(452)
cv <- vfold_cv(bradypus_tb, v = 2)
maxent_tune_res <- maxent_spec %>%
  tune_grid(presence ~ ., cv, grid = 3)
show_best(maxent_tune_res, metric = "roc_auc")

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