cs-5821/hw4/answers
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We now review k-fold cross-validation.
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(a) Explain how k-fold cross-validation is implemented.
The data are split into k groups of about equal size. The
first group is set aside to be used as a validation set. The
model is trained on the remaining sets, and an MSE is
computed using the validation set. This process is repeated
using the next set as a validation set, producing a second
MSE. The process is performed on each of the k groups the
data were split into, producing k MSEs, one for each
validation set. Given a good value of k, this mean squared
error is a good approximation for the minimum point along
the flexibility axis that allows us to judge the appropriate
flexibility to model some data, i.e., to estimate the right
bias-variance tradeoff for a particular model.
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(b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of k-fold cross-
validation relative to:
i. The validation set approach?
The validation set approach is basically k-fold with k=2.
This gives a biased measure of the test error rate. However,
it's very quick to compute. Of course, the MSE here will
have no variance because we are only taking a single MSE
from a single test set: so this gives large bias of the MSE
but no variance.
ii. LOOCV?
LOOCV is on the other end of the spectrum from this. It
gives a very unbiased MSE for each validation set because
each validation set is a single datum and is being tested
against a nearly-full training set, compared to the overall
data set. However, the MSEs will be highly-correlated
because the training sets are almost completely the same,
and this guarantees a high variance.
K-fold cross-validation occupies the space in-between, where
it has some bias and some variance of the MSE. Empirically,
we know that k=5 and k=10 are two values that often work
well to provide good estimates of these MSEs, because they
provide balanced bias and variance.
6. We continue to consider the use of a logistic regression model to
predict the probability of default using income and balance on
the Default data set. In particular, we will now compute
estimates for the standard errors of the income and balance
logistic regression co- efficients in two different ways: (1)
using the bootstrap, and (2) using the standard formula for
computing the standard errors in the glm() function. Do not
forget to set a random seed before beginning your analysis.
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(a) Using the summary() and glm() functions, determine the esti-
mated standard errors for the coefficients associated with
income and balance in a multiple logistic regression model that
uses both predictors.
10,000 entries in the table, so testing 2 ways to separate the data,
> train.default1 = Default[1:6001,]
> train.default2 = Default[1:5001,]
> test.default1 = Default[6002:10000,]
> test.default2 = Default[5002:10000,]
> fit.glm.default1 = glm(default ~ income + balance,train.default1, family="binomial")
> fit.glm.default2 = glm(default ~ income + balance,train.default2, family="binomial")
*** from summary(fit.glm.default1), we get std. error
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error
(Intercept) -1.156e+01 5.622e-01
income 2.237e-05 6.491e-06
balance 5.649e-03 2.916e-04
*** from summary(fit.glm.default2), we get std. error
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error
(Intercept) -1.198e+01 6.279e-01
income 2.885e-05 7.060e-06
balance 5.822e-03 3.232e-04
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(b) Write a function, boot.fn() , that takes as input the\
Default data set as well as an index of the observations, and
that outputs the coefficient estimates for income and balance in
the multiple logistic regression model.
boot.fn = function(Default,index){
model = glm(default ~ income + balance,Default,family="binomial",subset=index)
model$coefficients[2:3]
}
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(c) Use the boot() function together with your boot.fn()
function to estimate the standard errors of the logistic
regression coefficients for income and balance .
> set.seed(56)
> boot(Default,boot.fn,1000)
Bootstrap Statistics :
original bias std. error
t1* 2.080898e-05 1.436086e-07 4.679106e-06
t2* 5.647103e-03 1.876364e-05 2.320547e-04
***
The std. error in t1 above is the std. error for the income
coefficient, and under t2, the std. error for the balance
coefficient.
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(d) Comment on the estimated standard errors obtained using the
glm() function and using your bootstrap function.
The bootstrap method uses random sampling to approximate
sampling a real response. This gives a stronger σ²
(variance) estimate than the formulaic approach used to
calculate the std err for a linear regression model. The std
err estimates from the bootstrap method are therefore more
reliable than those computed earlier in this exercise.
The std err from bootstrap for the income coefficient is
about 66% of that computed from the linear regression model
directly. This is 72% for the coefficient of balance. These
smaller values should be considered reliable, that is, we
can believe the smaller errors compared to the standard
meothods, because of the reason I explained above.