similar to: cross-validation in rpart

Dear R users, I know cross-validation does not work in rpart with user defined split functions. As Terry Therneau suggested, one can use the xpred.rpart function and then summarize the matrix of the predicted values into a single "goodness" value. I need only a confirmation: set for example xval=10, if I correctly understood a single column of the matrix obatined by xpred.rpart gives

Hello list, I'm trying to generate classifiers for a certain task using several methods, one of them being decision trees. The doubts come when I want to estimate the cross-validation error of the generated tree: tree <- rpart(y~., data=data.frame(xsel, y), cp=0.00001) ptree <- prune(tree, cp=tree$cptable[which.min(tree$cptable[,"xerror"]),"CP"]) ptree$cptable

Hi All, I have to say upfront that I am a complete neophyte when it comes to programming. Nevertheless I enjoy the challenge of using R because of its incredible statistical resources. My problem is this .........I am running a regression tree analysis using "rpart" and I need to run the calculation repeatedly (say n=50 times) to obtain a distribution of results from which I will pick

Full_Name: Gregory R. Warnes Version: R 1.3.1 OS: Solaris 2.8 Submission from: (NULL) (192.77.198.200) rpart library version 3.1-2 Error message: > plotcp(fit.thirds.1,ylim=c(0.7,1.5)); Error in plot.default(ns, xerror, axes = FALSE, xlab = "cp", ylab = "X-val Relative Error", : formal argument "ylim" matched by multiple actual arguments > This can be

Dear R community, I am trying to write my own user defined split function for rpart. I read the example in the tests directory and I understand the general idea of the how to implement user defined splitting functions. However, I am having troubles with addressing the data frame used in calling rpart in my split functions. For example, in the evaluation function that is called once per node,

Hi All, I have some questions on using library rpart. Given my data below, the plotcp gives me increasing 'xerrors' across different cp's with huge xstd (plot attached). What causes the problem or it's not a problem at all? I am thinking 'xerror's should be decreasing when 'cp' gets smaller. Also what the 'xstd' really tells us? If the error bars for

Hi, I would like write a split function to implement a new split method with the package RPART. I see that I can define my split function as specified in the example of usersplits function, but I don't understand how I can use the variable "offsets". What is the meaning of these variable? Thank's Michela

Dear all, I'm trying to manage with user defined split function in rpart (file rpart\tests\usersplits.R in http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rpart_3.1-34.tar.gz - see bottom of the email). Suppose to have the following data.frame (note that x's values are already sorted) > D y x 1 7 0.428 2 3 0.876 3 1 1.467 4 6 1.492 5 3 1.703 6 4 2.406 7 8 2.628 8 6 2.879 9 5 3.025 10 3 3.494

Hello: I am using rpart and would like more background on how the splits are made and how to interpret results - also how to properly use text(.rpart). I have looked through Venables and Ripley and through the rpart help and still have some questions. If there is a source (say, Breiman et al) on decision trees that would clear this all up, please let me know. The questions below pertain to a

Dear r-help-list: If I use the rpart method like cfit<-rpart(y~.,data=data,...), what kind of tree is stored in cfit? Is it right that this tree is not pruned at all, that it is the full tree? If so, it's up to me to choose a subtree by using the printcp method. In the technical report from Atkinson and Therneau "An Introduction to recursive partitioning using the rpart

Dear R users, I'm working with the rpart package and want to evaluate the performance of user defined split functions. I have some problems in understanding the meaning of the xval argument in the two functions rpart.control and xpred.rpart. In the former it is defined as the number of cross-validations while in the latter it is defined as the number of cross-validation groups. If I am

Hi, I think I'm missing something very obvious, but I am missing it, so I would be very grateful for help. I'm using rpart to analyse data on skull base morphology, essentially predicting sex from one or several skull base measurements. The sex of the people whose skulls are being studied is known, and lives as a factor (M,F) in the data. I want to get back predictions of gender, and

Hi I have installed rpart in my Linux (PLD) but I don't know how I may find help conect this package? Here is my instalaction: > install.packages("rpart",dependencies=TRUE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/src/contrib/rpart_3.1-46.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 136572 bytes (133

I am performing a binary classification using a classification tree. Ironically, the data themselves are 2483 tree (real biological ones) locations as described by a suite of environmental variables (slope, soil moisture, radiation load, etc). I want to separate them from an equal number of random points. Doing eda on the data shows that there is substantial difference between the tree and random

Hi, When I look at the summary of an rpart object run on my data, I get 7 nodes but when I plot the rpart object, I get only 3 nodes. Should the number of nodes not match in the results of the 2 functions (summary and plot) or it is not always the same? Look forward to your reply, Carol -------------------------------------------- ?summary(rpart.res) Call: rpart(formula = mydata$class ~ ., data

Hi Listers I need to calculate and then plot a frequency histogram of the best tree calculated using the 1-se rule. I have included some code that has worked well for me in the past but it was only for selecting the minimum cross-validation error. I include the code for my model, some relevant output and the code for selecting and plotting the frequency histogram of minimum xerror. Here is the

Hallo! I am a student of the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, italy) and I'm working on CARTs. I'm trying to use the R rpart function with a personalized splitfunction... but I'm not able to do it! More precisely, I would like to know what is the meaning of the function 'init', 'split' and 'eval' named in the help page.I can't find any answer in

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Dear R-list members, I am doing a CART analysis in R using the rpart function in the rpart package: Phrag.rpart=rpart(PhragDiff~., data = Phrag, method="anova", xval=10). I used the xerror values in the CP table to prune the tree to 4 nsplits: CP nsplit rel error xerror xstd 1 0.098172 0 1.00000 1.02867 0.12768 2 0.055991 3 0.70548 1.00823 0.12911 3

I am trying to find out what type of sampling scheme is used to select the 10 subsets in 10-fold cross-validation process used in rpart to choose the best tree. Is it simple random sampling? Is there any documentation available on this? Thanks, Penny. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/cross-validation-in-rpart-tp3389329p3389329.html Sent from the R help mailing list