predict.gausspr {kernlab} | R Documentation

## predict method for Gaussian Processes object

### Description

Prediction of test data using Gaussian Processes

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'gausspr':
    predict(object, newdata, type = "response", coupler = "minpair")

### Arguments

`object` | an S4 object of class `gausspr` created by the `gausspr` function
`newdata` | a data frame or matrix containing new data
`type` | one of `response`, `probabilities` indicating the type of output: predicted values or matrix of class probabilities
`coupler` | Coupling method used in the multiclass case, can be one of `minpair` or `pkpd` (see reference for more details).

### Value

`response` | predicted classes (the classes with majority vote) or the response value in regression.
`probabilities` | matrix of class probabilities (one column for each class and one row for each input).

### Author(s)

Alexandros Karatzoglou
alexandros.karatzoglou@ci.tuwien.ac.at

### References

- C. K. I. Williams and D. Barber
  Bayesian classification with Gaussian processes.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20(12):1342-1351, 1998
  http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/ckiw/postscript/pami_final.ps.gz
- T.F. Wu, C.J. Lin, R.C. Weng.
  Probability estimates for Multi-class Classification by Pairwise Coupling
  http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/svmprob/svmprob.pdf

### Examples

    ## example using the promotergene data set
    data(promotergene)

    ## create test and training set
    ind <- sample(1:dim(promotergene)[1],20)
    genetrain <- promotergene[-ind, ]
    genetest <- promotergene[ind, ]

    ## train a support vector machine
    gene <- gausspr(Class~.,data=genetrain,kernel="rbfdot",kpar=list(sigma=0.015))
    gene

    ## predict gene type probabilities on the test set
    genetype <- predict(gene,genetest,type="probabilities")
    genetype

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