E Solutions ch. 6 - Decision trees and random forests

Solutions to exercises of chapter 6.

E.1 Exercise 1

Load the necessary packages
readr to read in the data
dplyr to process data
party and rpart for the classification tree algorithms

library(readr)
library(dplyr)

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## Attaching package: 'dplyr'

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## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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library(party)

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## Loading required package: zoo

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## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## Loading required package: sandwich

library(rpart)
library(rpart.plot)
library(ROCR)

## Loading required package: gplots

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set.seed(100)

Select features that may explain survival

Each row in the data is a passenger. Columns are features:

survived: 0 if died, 1 if survived
embarked: Port of Embarkation (Cherbourg, Queenstown,Southampton)
sex: Gender
sibsp: Number of Siblings/Spouses Aboard
parch: Number of Parents/Children Aboard
fare: Fare Payed

Make categorical features should be made into factors

titanic3 <- "https://goo.gl/At238b" %>%
  read_csv %>% # read in the data
  select(survived, embarked, sex, 
         sibsp, parch, fare) %>%
  mutate(embarked = factor(embarked),
         sex = factor(sex))

## Parsed with column specification:
## cols(
##   pclass = col_character(),
##   survived = col_integer(),
##   name = col_character(),
##   sex = col_character(),
##   age = col_double(),
##   sibsp = col_integer(),
##   parch = col_integer(),
##   ticket = col_character(),
##   fare = col_double(),
##   cabin = col_character(),
##   embarked = col_character(),
##   boat = col_character(),
##   body = col_integer(),
##   home.dest = col_character()
## )

#load("/Users/robertness/Downloads/titanic.Rdata")

Split data into training and test sets

.data <- c("training", "test") %>%
  sample(nrow(titanic3), replace = T) %>%
  split(titanic3, .)

Recursive partitioning is implemented in “rpart” package

rtree_fit <- rpart(survived ~ ., 
          .data$training) 
rpart.plot(rtree_fit)

Conditional partitioning is implemented in the “ctree” method

tree_fit <- ctree(survived ~ ., 
                  data = .data$training)
plot(tree_fit)

Use ROCR package to visualize ROC Curve and compare methods

tree_roc <- tree_fit %>%
  predict(newdata = .data$test) %>%
  prediction(.data$test$survived) %>%
  performance("tpr", "fpr")
plot(tree_roc)

Acknowledgement: the code for this excersise is from http://bit.ly/2fqWKvK