Weka_classifier_meta: R/Weka Meta Learners

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R/Weka Meta Learners

Description

R interfaces to Weka meta learners.

Usage

AdaBoostM1(formula, data, subset, na.action,
           control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)
Bagging(formula, data, subset, na.action,
        control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)
LogitBoost(formula, data, subset, na.action,
           control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)
MultiBoostAB(formula, data, subset, na.action,
             control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)
Stacking(formula, data, subset, na.action,
         control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)
CostSensitiveClassifier(formula, data, subset, na.action,
                        control = Weka_control(), options = NULL)

Arguments

formula	a symbolic description of the model to be fit.
data	an optional data frame containing the variables in the model.
subset	an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used in the fitting process.
na.action	a function which indicates what should happen when the data contain NAs. See model.frame for details.
control	an object of class Weka_control giving options to be passed to the Weka learner. Available options can be obtained on-line using the Weka Option Wizard WOW, or the Weka documentation. Base classifiers with an available R/Weka interface (see list_Weka_interfaces), can be specified (using the W option) via their “base name” as shown in the interface registry (see the examples), or their interface function.
options	a named list of further options, or NULL (default). See Details.

Details

There are a predict method for predicting from the fitted models, and a summary method based on evaluate_Weka_classifier.

AdaBoostM1 implements the AdaBoost M1 method of \bibcitetFreund+Schapire:1996.

Bagging provides bagging \bibcitepBreiman:1996.

LogitBoost performs boosting via additive logistic regression \bibcitepFriedman+Hastie+Tibshirani:2000.

MultiBoostAB implements MultiBoosting \bibcitepWebb:2000, an extension to the AdaBoost technique for forming decision committees which can be viewed as a combination of AdaBoost and “wagging”.

Stacking provides stacking \bibcitepWolpert:1992.

CostSensitiveClassifier makes its base classifier cost-sensitive.

The model formulae should only use the ‘⁠+⁠’ and ‘⁠-⁠’ operators to indicate the variables to be included or not used, respectively.

Argument options allows further customization. Currently, options model and instances (or partial matches for these) are used: if set to TRUE, the model frame or the corresponding Weka instances, respectively, are included in the fitted model object, possibly speeding up subsequent computations on the object. By default, neither is included.

Value

A list inheriting from classes Weka_meta and Weka_classifiers with components including

classifier	a reference (of class jobjRef) to a Java object obtained by applying the Weka buildClassifier method to build the specified model using the given control options.
predictions	a numeric vector or factor with the model predictions for the training instances (the results of calling the Weka classifyInstance method for the built classifier and each instance).
call	the matched call.

Note

multiBoostAB requires Weka package multiBoostAB to be installed.

References

\bibshow

Breiman:1996, Freund+Schapire:1996, Friedman+Hastie+Tibshirani:2000, Webb:2000, Witten+Frank:2005, Wolpert:1992

See Also

Weka_classifiers

Examples

## Use AdaBoostM1 with decision stumps.
m1 <- AdaBoostM1(Species ~ ., data = iris,
                 control = Weka_control(W = "DecisionStump"))
table(predict(m1), iris$Species)

summary(m1) # uses evaluate_Weka_classifier()

## Control options for the base classifiers employed by the meta
## learners (apart from Stacking) can be given as follows:
m2 <- AdaBoostM1(Species ~ ., data = iris,
                 control = Weka_control(W = list(J48, M = 30)))

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