README.md

In Skjemaa/GA: Selects covariates for use in regression using genetic algorithm

Genetic algorithm for lm and glm

Members

• Skander Jemaa
• River Jenkins
• Yachuan Liu
• Yu Wang

Main function : select

The main function select can be used with 2 arguments: - the name of the response variable y - the name of the dataset

example: select("crim", Boston)

Use of the most significant covariates and the largest interaction terms

We added options and utility functions to be able to eliminate the covariates with large p-values and to take into account the interactions var1:var2 in lm if the absolute value of the correlation between the 2 covariates are large.

User defined selection methods:

The user can provide function names as arguments to select the parent selection mechanism, the gene operator and the objective function.

Skjemaa/GA documentation built on May 3, 2019, 6:42 p.m.