Machine Learning Toolbox for Social Scientists - Applied Predictive Analytics With R

List of contents

1. How We Define Machine Learning 2. Preliminaries Part 1. Formal Look at Prediction 3. Bias-Variance Tradeoff 4. Overfitting Part 2. Nonparametric Estimations 5. Parametric Estimations 6. Nonparametric Estimations - Basics 7. Smoothing 8. Nonparametric Classifier - kNN Part 3. Self-learning 9. Hyperparameter Tuning 10. Tuning in Classification 11. Classification Example Part 4. Tree-based Models 12. CART 13. Ensemble Learning 14. Ensemble Applications Part 5. SVM & Neural Networks 15. Support Vector Machines 16. Artificial Neural Networks Part 6. Penalized Regressions 17. Ridge 18. Lasso 19. Adaptive Lasso 20. Sparsity Part 7. Time Series Forecasting 21. ARIMA models 22. Grid Search for Arima 23. Time Series Embedding 24. Random Forest with Times Series 25. Recurrent Neural Networks Part 8. Dimension Reduction Methods 26. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues 27. Singular Value Decomposition 28. Rank r approximations 29. Moore-Penrose Inverse 30. Principle Component Analysis 31. Factor Analysis Part 9. Network Analysis 32. Fundamentals 33. Regularized Covariance Matrix Part 10. R Labs 34. R Lab 1 Basics 35. R Lab 2 Basics II 36. Simulations in R 37. Algorithmic Optimization 38. Imbalanced Data

About the author

Yigit Aydede is a Sobey Professor of Economics at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a founder member of the Research Portal on Machine Learning for Social and Health Policy, a joint initiative by a group of researchers from Saint Mary’s and Dalhousie universities

Summary

Machine Learning Toolbox for Social Scientists covers predictive methods with complementary statistical "tools" that make it mostly self-contained. The inferential statistics is the traditional framework for most data analytics courses in social science and business fields.

Product details

• Authors: Yigit Aydede, Yigit (Professor Aydede
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032463957
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246395-7
• No. of pages: 586
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; machine learning, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation, COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software, Probability & statistics, Mathematical & statistical software, Automatic control engineering, Probability and statistics, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Machine Learning, Mathematical and statistical software