practicalSigni

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Practical Significance Ranking of Regressors and Exact t Density

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Maintained by Hrishikesh VinodFirst published 2023-02-173 releasesCRAN page ↗

Consider a possibly nonlinear nonparametric regression with p regressors. We provide evaluations by 13 methods to rank regressors by their practical significance or importance using various methods, including machine learning tools. Comprehensive methods are as follows. m6=Generalized partial correlation coefficient or GPCC by Vinod (2021)doi:10.1007/s10614-021-10190-x and Vinod (2022)https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/15/1/32. m7= a generalization of psychologists' effect size incorporating nonlinearity and many variables. m8= local linear partial (dy/dxi) using the 'np' package for kernel regressions. m9= partial (dy/dxi) using the 'NNS' package. m10= importance measure using the 'NNS' boost function. m11= Shapley Value measure of importance (cooperative game theory). m12 and m13= two versions of the random forest algorithm. Taraldsen's exact density for sampling distribution of correlations added.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("practicalSigni", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-practicalsigni

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-practicalSigni

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-practicalSigni

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.3.0np generalCorr

Imports (5)

xtable ShapleyValue NNS randomForest hypergeo

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Suggests (1)

R.rsp

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 557 (60%)Rd 360 (39%)Other 12 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 7.0 median / 67 max

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Functions

6 6 exported

Complexity

17.3 avg / 67 max

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-17
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 469 KB
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