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Regression Analysis with R
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Regression Analysis with R

by Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pierre Paquay, Manoj Kumar, Shaikh Salamatullah
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
422 pages
9h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploratory analysis

Before starting with data analysis through the logistic regression, we conduct an exploratory analysis to understand how the data is distributed and extract preliminary knowledge. Let's start by checking the dataset using the str() function. This function provides a compact display of the internal structure of an object. Ideally, only one line for each basic structure is displayed:

str(BCData)

The results are shown here:

> str(BCData)'data.frame':  699 obs. of  11 variables: $ Id              : int  1000025 1002945 1015425 1016277 1017023 1017122 1018099                           1018561 1033078 1033078 ... $ ClumpThickness  : int  5 5 3 6 4 8 1 2 2 4 ... $ CellSize        : int  1 4 1 8 1 10 1 1 1 2 ... $ CellShape       : int  1 4 1 8 1 10 1 2 1 1 ... $ MarginalAdhesion: int ...
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