June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
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Variable reduction/variable importance
Variable reduction techniques allow you to reduce the number of variables that you need to specify to a model. We will discuss three different methods to accomplish this.
- Principal Components Analysis (PCA).
- All subsets Regression.
- Variable Importance.