rxPredict.rxDForest: Prediction for Large Data Classification and Regression Forests
Description
Calculate predicted or fitted values for a data set from an object inheriting from class rxDForest
.
Usage
## S3 method for class `rxDForest':
rxPredict (modelObject, data = NULL,
outData = NULL, predVarNames = NULL, writeModelVars = FALSE, extraVarsToWrite = NULL,
append = c("none", "rows"), overwrite = FALSE,
type = c("response", "prob", "vote"), cutoff = NULL, removeMissings = FALSE,
computeResiduals = FALSE, residType = c("usual", "pearson", "deviance"), residVarNames = NULL,
blocksPerRead = rxGetOption("blocksPerRead"), reportProgress = rxGetOption("reportProgress"),
verbose = 0, xdfCompressionLevel = rxGetOption("xdfCompressionLevel"),
... )
Arguments
modelObject
object inheriting from class rxDForest
.
data
either a data source object, a character string specifying a .xdf file, or a data frame object.
outData
file or existing data frame to store predictions; can be same as the input file or NULL
. If not NULL
, must be an .xdf file if data
is an .xdf file or a data frame if data
is a data frame.
predVarNames
character vector specifying name(s) to give to the prediction results.
writeModelVars
logical value. If TRUE
, and the output file is different from the input file, variables in the model will be written to the output file in addition to the predictions. If variables from the input data set are transformed in the model, the transformed variables will also be written out.
extraVarsToWrite
NULL
or character vector of additional variables names from the input data or transforms to include in the outData
. If writeModelVars
is TRUE
, model variables will be included as well.
append
either "none"
to create a new files or "rows"
to append rows to an existing file. If outData
exists and append
is "none"
, the overwrite
argument must be set to TRUE
. You can append only to RxTeradata data source. Ignored for data frames.
overwrite
logical value. If TRUE
, an existing outData
will be overwritten. overwrite
is ignored if appending rows. Ignored for data frames.
type
character string specifying the type of predicted values to be returned. Supported choices for an object of class rxDForest
are "response", "prob", and "vote".
"response"
- a vector of predicted values for a regression forest and predicted classes (with majority vote) for a classification forest."prob"
- (Classification only) a matrix of predicted class probabilities whose columns are the probability of the first, second, etc. class. It ensentially sums up the probability predictions for each class over all the trees and thus may give different class predictions from those obtained with "response" or "vote"."vote"
- (Classification only) a matrix of predicted vote counts whose columns are the vote counts of the first, second, etc. class.
"class" is also allowed but automatically converted to "response". Supported choices for an object of classrxBTrees
are "response" and "link"."response"
- the predictions are on the scale of the response variable."link"
- the predictions are on the scale of the linear predictors.
cutoff
(Classification only) a vector of length equal to the number of classes specifying the dividing factors for the class votes. The default is the one used when the decision forest is built.
removeMissings
logical value. If TRUE
, rows with missing values are removed and will not be included in the output data.
computeResiduals
logical value. If TRUE
, residuals are computed.
residType
see residuals.rpart for details.
residVarNames
character vector specifying name(s) to give to the residual results.
blocksPerRead
number of blocks to read for each chunk of data read from the data source.
reportProgress
integer value with options:
0
: no progress is reported.1
: the number of processed rows is printed and updated.2
: rows processed and timings are reported.3
: rows processed and all timings are reported.
verbose
integer value. If 0
, no verbose output is printed during calculations. Integer values from 1
to 4
provide increasing amounts of information are provided.
xdfCompressionLevel
integer in the range of -1 to 9 indicating the compression level for the output data if written to an .xdf
file. The higher the value, the greater the amount of compression - resulting in smaller files but a longer time to create them. If xdfCompressionLevel
is set to 0, there will be no compression and files will be compatible with the 6.0 release of Revolution R Enterprise. If set to -1, a default level of compression will be used.
...
additional arguments to be passed directly to the Microsoft R Services Compute Engine.
Details
Prediction for large data models requires both a fitted model object and a data set, either the
original data (to obtain fitted values and residuals) or a new data set containing the same set
of variables as the original fitted model. Notice that this is different from the behavior of
predict
, which can usually work on the original data simply by referencing the fitted model.
Value
Depending on the form of data
, this function variously returns a data frame or a data source
representing a .xdf file.
Author(s)
Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Technical Support
References
Breiman, L. (2001) Random Forests. Machine Learning 45(1), 5--32.
Breiman, L., Friedman, J. H., Olshen, R. A. and Stone, C. J. (1984) Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.
Therneau, T. M. and Atkinson, E. J. (2011) An Introduction to Recursive Partitioning Using the RPART Routines.
Yael Ben-Haim and Elad Tom-Tov (2010) A streaming parallel decision tree algorithm. Journal of Machine Learning Research 11, 849--872.
See Also
Examples
set.seed(1234)
# classification
iris.sub <- c(sample(1:50, 25), sample(51:100, 25), sample(101:150, 25))
iris.dforest <- rxDForest(Species ~ Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width,
data = iris[iris.sub, ], cp = 0.01)
iris.dforest
table(rxPredict(iris.dforest, iris[-iris.sub, ], type = "class")[[1]],
iris[-iris.sub, "Species"])
# regression
infert.nrow <- nrow(infert)
infert.sub <- sample(infert.nrow, infert.nrow / 2)
infert.dforest <- rxDForest(case ~ age + parity + education + spontaneous + induced,
data = infert[infert.sub, ], cp = 0.01)
infert.dforest
hist(rxPredict(infert.dforest, infert[-infert.sub, ])[[1]] -
infert[-infert.sub, "case"])