Home Page For the Beginning Data Mining/Machine Learning Class
Install R
To get started using R you can download it from http://cran.r-project.org/
Complete instructions for downloading R and installing it on eclipse are here: To run R on Eclipse
Reading Material
To understand the mathematics behind linear regression check out these slides: MultivariateLinearRegression.pdf
To understand why you need to normalize the data before the regression: RidgeBiasDiscussion.txt
PredictionErrorvsModelComplexity This chart is from the Elements of Statistical Learning text book
Ridge Regression Section 3.4.1 on page 61 of the :
"The Elements of Statistical Learning - Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn
Examples to Run
Here are some examples you might find interesting:
SimpleRegressionExample.R problem statement this is a ridiculously simple example
sonar_regress_crossval.R example using cross-validation
RidgeRegSonarData.R example of Ridge Regression
Data to Download
Data Required for these programs
Data for Camp Example
