build_gam_formula

Constructs a formula for mgcv::gam() by wrapping numeric predictors with
sufficient unique values in s() terms and keeping factors as linear terms.

internal

Provides methods for imputation and visualization of
missing values. It includes graphical tools to explore the amount, structure
and patterns of missing and/or imputed values, supporting exploratory
data analysis and helping to investigate potential missingness mechanisms
(details in Alfons, Templ and Filzmoser, <doi:10.1007/s11634-011-0102-y>).
The quality of imputations can be assessed visually using a wide range of
univariate, bivariate and multivariate plots.
The package further provides several imputation methods,
including efficient implementations of k-nearest neighbour and hot-deck
imputation (Kowarik and Templ 2013, <doi:10.18637/jss.v074.i07>),
iterative robust model-based multiple
imputation (Templ 2011, <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2011.04.012>;
Templ 2023, <doi:10.3390/math11122729>), and machine learning–based
approaches such as robust GAM-based multiple imputation
(Templ 2024, <doi:10.1007/s11222-024-10429-1>) as well as random forest
and gradient boosting (XGBoost) imputation
(Niederhametner et al., <doi:10.1177/18747655251339401>).
General background and practical guidance on imputation are provided in the
Springer book by
Templ (2023) <doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30073-8>.

Matthias Templ

Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values

Alexander Kowarik

Andreas Alfons

Johannes Gussenbauer

Nina Niederhametner

Eileen Vattheuer

Gregor de Cillia

Bernd Prantner

Wolfgang Rannetbauer

build_gam_formula function

<dl><dt>target</dt>
<dd>Character: target variable name</dd>
<dt>features</dt>
<dd>Character vector: predictor variable names</dd>
<dt>data</dt>
<dd>Data frame used to check variable types and unique value counts</dd>
<dt>min_unique</dt>
<dd>Integer: minimum number of unique values for a numeric
predictor to be wrapped in s(). Default 4 (mgcv needs at least k=3 knots).</dd></dl>

Arguments

Build a GAM formula with automatic smooth terms — build_gam_formula

<dl>

<dt>target</dt>
<dd>Character: target variable name</dd>


<dt>features</dt>
<dd>Character vector: predictor variable names</dd>


<dt>data</dt>
<dd>Data frame used to check variable types and unique value counts</dd>


<dt>min_unique</dt>
<dd>Integer: minimum number of unique values for a numeric
predictor to be wrapped in s(). Default 4 (mgcv needs at least k=3 knots).</dd>

</dl>

Build a GAM formula with automatic smooth terms

build_gam_formula: Build a GAM formula with automatic smooth terms

Description

Usage

Value

Arguments