gausspr {kernlab} | R Documentation

## Gaussian processes for regression and classification

### Description

`gausspr` is an implementation of Gaussian processes for classification and regression.

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'formula':
    gausspr(x, data=NULL, ..., subset, na.action = na.omit)

    ## S4 method for signature 'vector':
    gausspr(x,...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'matrix':
    gausspr(x, y, type="classification", kernel="rbfdot", kpar=list(sigma = 0.1),
              var=1, tol=0.001, cross=0, fit=TRUE, ... , subset, na.action = na.omit)

### Arguments

`x` | a symbolic description of the model to be fit or a matrix or vector when a formula interface is not used. When not using a formula x is a matrix or vector containg the variables in the model
`data` | an optional data frame containing the variables in the model. By default the variables are taken from the environment which `gausspr' is called from.
`y` | a response vector with one label for each row/component of `x`. Can be either a factor (for classification tasks) or a numeric vector (for regression).
`type` | Type of problem. Either "classification" or "regression"
`kernel` | the kernel function used in training and predicting. This parameter can be set to any function, of class kernel, which computes a dot product between two vector arguments. kernlab provides the most popular kernel functions which can be used by setting the kernel parameter to the following strings: `rbfdot` Radial Basis kernel function "Gaussian" `polydot` Polynomial kernel function `vanilladot` Linear kernel function `tanhdot` Hyperbolic tangent kernel function `laplacedot` Laplacian kernel function `besseldot` Bessel kernel function `anovadot` ANOVA RBF kernel function `splinedot` Spline kernel The kernel parameter can also be set to a user defined function of class kernel by passing the function name as an argument.
`kpar` | the list of hyper-parameters (kernel parameters). This is a list which contains the parameters to be used with the kernel function. Valid parameters for existing kernels are : `sigma` inverse kernel width for the Radial Basis kernel function "rbfdot" and the Laplacian kernel "laplacedot". `degree, scale, offset` for the Polynomial kernel "polydot" `scale, offset` for the Hyperbolic tangent kernel function "tanhdot" `sigma, order, degree` for the Bessel kernel "besseldot". `sigma, degree` for the ANOVA kernel "anovadot". Hyper-parameters for user defined kernels can be passed through the kpar parameter as well.
`var` | the initial noise variance, (only for regression) (default : 0.001)
`tol` | tolerance of termination criterion (default: 0.001)
`fit` | indicates whether the fitted values should be computed and included in the model or not (default: 'TRUE')
`cross` | if a integer value k>0 is specified, a k-fold cross validation on the training data is performed to assess the quality of the model: the Mean Squared Error for regression
`subset` | An index vector specifying the cases to be used in the training sample. (NOTE: If given, this argument must be named.)
`na.action` | A function to specify the action to be taken if `NA`s are found. The default action is `na.omit`, which leads to rejection of cases with missing values on any required variable. An alternative is `na.fail`, which causes an error if `NA` cases are found. (NOTE: If given, this argument must be named.)
`...` | additional parameters

### Details

A Gaussian process is specified by a mean and a covariance function. The mean is a function of x (which is often the zero function), and the covariance is a function C(x,x') which expresses the expected covariance between the value of the function y at the points x and x'. The actual function y(x) in any data modelling problem is assumed to be a single sample from this Gaussian distribution. Laplace approximation is used for the parameter estimation in gaussian processes for classification.

The predict function can return class probabilities for classification problems by setting the `type` parameter to "probabilities".

### Value

An S4 object of class "gausspr" containing the fitted model along with information. Accessor functions can be used to access the slots of the object which include :

`alpha` | The resulting model parameters
`error` | Training error (if fit == TRUE)

### 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

### See Also

`predict.gausspr`, `rvm`, `ksvm`, `gausspr-class`, `lssvm`

### Examples

    # train model
    data(iris)
    test <- gausspr(Species~.,data=iris,var=2)
    test
    alpha(test)

    # predict on the training set
    predict(test,iris[,-5])
    # class probabilities
    predict(test, iris[,-5], type="probabilities")

    # create regression data
    x <- seq(-20,20,0.1)
    y <- sin(x)/x + rnorm(401,sd=0.03)

    # regression with gaussian processes
    foo <- gausspr(x, y)
    foo

    # predict and plot
    ytest <- predict(foo, x)
    plot(x, y, type ="l")
    lines(x, ytest, col="red")

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