Neural Networks with R

Exploratory analysis

Before starting with data analysis through the build and training of a neural network, we conduct an exploratory analysis to understand how the data is distributed and extract preliminary knowledge.

summary(BreastCancer)

With this command, we will see a brief summary using the summary() function.

Remember, the summary() function is a generic function used to produce result summaries of the results of various model fitting functions. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

In this case, the function was applied to a dataframe and the results are shown in the following screenshot:

The summary() function returns a set of statistics for each variable. In particular, it is ...