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Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition
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Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition

by AshishSingh Bhatia, Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
572 pages
26h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Perform the following steps to rank the variable importance with the caret package:

  1. First, you can estimate the variable importance with the varImp function:
    > importance = varImp(model, scale=FALSE)
    > importance
    Output
    rpart variable importance
    
                                  Overall
    number_customer_service_calls 116.015
    total_day_minutes             106.988
    total_day_charge              100.648
    international_planyes          86.789
    voice_mail_planyes             25.974
    total_eve_charge               23.097
    total_eve_minutes              23.097
    number_vmail_messages          19.885
    total_intl_minutes              6.347
    total_eve_calls                 0.000
    total_day_calls                 0.000
    total_night_charge              0.000
    total_intl_calls                0.000
    total_intl_charge               0.000
    total_night_minutes             0.000
    total_night_calls               0.000
  1. Then, you can generate the variable importance plot with the ...
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