mlr (version 2.10)

estimateResidualVariance: Estimate the residual variance.

Description

Estimate the residual variance of a regression model on a given task. If a regression learner is provided instead of a model, the model is trained (see train) first.

Usage

estimateResidualVariance(x, task, data, target)

Arguments

x
[Learner or WrappedModel] Learner or wrapped model.
task
[RegrTask] Regression task. If missing, data and target must be supplied.
data
[data.frame] A data frame containing the features and target variable. If missing, task must be supplied.
target
[character(1)] Name of the target variable. If missing, task must be supplied.