# nodeHarvest

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##### Node Harvest

Computes the node harvest estimator

##### Usage
nodeHarvest(X, Y, nodesize = 10,
nodes = 1000,
maxinter = 2,
mode = "mean",
lambda = Inf,
onlyinter = NULL,
silent = FALSE,
biascorr = FALSE)
##### Arguments
X
A n x p - dimensional data matrix, where n is sample size and p is the dimensionality of the predictor variable. Factorial variables are currently converted to numerical variables (will be changed in the future). Missing values are supported.
Y
A numerical vector of length n, containing the observations of the response variable. Can be continuous (regression) or binary 0/1 (classification).
nodesize
Minimal number of samples in each node.
nodes
Number of nodes in the initial large ensemble of nodes.
maxinter
Maximal interaction depth (1 = only main effects; 2 = two-factor interactions etc).
mode
If mode is equal to "mean", predictions are weighted group means. If equal to "outbag" (experimental version), the diagonal elements of the smoothing matrix are set to 0.
lambda
Optional upper bound on the inverse of the average weighted fraction of samples within each node.
A previous node harvest estimator to which additional nodes should be attached (useful for iterative growth of the estimator when hitting memory constraints).
onlyinter
Allow interactions only for this list of variables.
silent
If TRUE, no comments are printed.
biascorr
Use bias correction? Experimental. Can be useful for high signal-to-noise ratio data.
##### Details

The number of nodes should be chosen as large as possible under the available computational resources. If these resources are limited, an estimator can be build by iteratively calling the function, adding the previous estimator via the addto argument.

Feedback and feature requests are more than welcome (email below).

##### Value

A list with entries
nodes
A list of all selected nodes
predicted
Predicted values on training data
connection
Connectivity matrix between selected nodes (used for plotting)
varnames
Variable names
Y
The original observations

##### References

Node harvest: simple and interpretable regression and classification' (arxiv:0910.2145)

predict.nodeHarvest, plot.nodeHarvest

• nodeHarvest
##### Examples

data(BostonHousing)
X <- BostonHousing[,1:13]
Y <- BostonHousing[,14]

## Divide data into training and test data
n <- nrow(X)
training <- sample(1:n,round(n/2))
testing <- (1:n)[-training]

## Train Node Harvest and plot and print the estimator
NH <- nodeHarvest( X[training,], Y[training], nodes=500 )
plot(NH)
print(NH, nonodes=6)

## Predict on test data and explain prediction of the first sample in the test set
predicttest <- predict(NH, X[testing,], explain=1)
plot( predicttest, Y[testing] )


Documentation reproduced from package nodeHarvest, version 0.7-3, License: GPL-3

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