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DecisionForestPredict

Description

The DecisionForestPredict function uses the model generated by the DecisionForest (td_decision_forest_mle) function to generate predictions on a response variable for a test set of data. Note: This function is only available when tdplyr is connected to Vantage 1.1 or later versions.

Usage

  td_decision_forest_predict_mle (
      object = NULL,
      newdata = NULL,
      id.column = NULL,
      detailed = FALSE,
      terms = NULL,
      output.response.probdist = FALSE,
      output.responses = NULL,
      newdata.sequence.column = NULL,
      object.sequence.column = NULL,
      newdata.order.column = NULL,
      object.order.column = NULL
  )

Arguments

object	Required Argument. Specifies the model tbl_teradata generated by td_decision_forest_mle. This argument can accept either a tbl_teradata or an object of "td_decision_forest_mle" class.
object.order.column	Optional Argument. Specifies Order By columns for "object". Values to this argument can be provided as a vector, if multiple columns are used for ordering. Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)
newdata	Required Argument. Specifies the tbl_teradata object containing the input test data.
newdata.order.column	Optional Argument. Specifies Order By columns for "newdata". Values to this argument can be provided as a vector, if multiple columns are used for ordering. Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)
id.column	Required Argument. Specifies a column containing a unique identifier for each test point in the test set. Types: character
detailed	Optional Argument. Specifies whether to output detailed information about the forest trees; that is, the decision tree and the specific tree information, including task index and tree index for each tree. Default Value: FALSE Types: logical
terms	Optional Argument. Specifies the names of the input columns to copy to the output tbl_teradata. Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)
output.response.probdist	Optional Argument. Specifies whether to output probabilities. Note: "output.response.probdist" argument support is only available when tdplyr is connected to Vantage 1.1.1 or later versions. Default Value: FALSE Types: logical
output.responses	Optional Argument. Specifies responses in input tbl_teradata. Note: The argument "output.response.probdist" must be set to TRUE to use this argument. "output.responses" argument support is only available when tdplyr is connected to Vantage 1.1.1 or later versions. Default Value: NULL Types: character OR vector of characters
newdata.sequence.column	Optional Argument. Specifies the vector of column(s) that uniquely identifies each row of the input argument "newdata". The argument is used to ensure deterministic results for functions which produce results that vary from run to run. Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)
object.sequence.column	Optional Argument. Specifies the vector of column(s) that uniquely identifies each row of the input argument "object". The argument is used to ensure deterministic results for functions which produce results that vary from run to run. Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)

Value

Function returns an object of class "td_decision_forest_predict_mle" which is a named list containing object of class "tbl_teradata".
Named list member can be referenced directly with the "$" operator using name: result.

Examples

  
    # Get the current context/connection
    con <- td_get_context()$connection

    # Load example data.
    loadExampleData("decisionforestpredict_example", "housing_test", "housing_train")

    # Create object(s) of class "tbl_teradata".
    housing_train <- tbl(con, "housing_train")
    housing_test <- tbl(con, "housing_test")

    # Example 1 - Using model object generated by td_decision_forest_mle() function.
    # Generate DecisionForest model based on train data "housing_train".
    formula <- (homestyle ~ driveway + recroom + fullbase + gashw + airco + prefarea +
                            price + lotsize + bedrooms + bathrms + stories + garagepl)
    decision_forest_model <- td_decision_forest_mle(data=housing_train,
                                                    formula = formula,
                                                    tree.type="classification",
                                                    ntree=50,
                                                    tree.size=100,
                                                    nodesize=1,
                                                    variance=0,
                                                    max.depth=12,
                                                    maxnum.categorical=20,
                                                    mtry=3,
                                                    mtry.seed=100,
                                                    seed=100
                                                    )

    # Use the generated model to predict the 'homestyle' on the test data housing_test.
    df_predict_mle_out1 <- td_decision_forest_predict_mle(object = decision_forest_model,
                                                          newdata = housing_test,
                                                          id.column = "sn",
                                                          detailed = FALSE,
                                                          terms = c("homestyle")
                                                          )

    # Example 2 - Using tbl_teradata object of the model generated by td_decision_forest_mle()
    # function.
    # Use 'predictive.model' tbl_teradata of the generated model (in Example 1) to predict
    # the 'homestyle' on the test data housing_test.
    df_predict_mle_out2 <- td_decision_forest_predict_mle(
                                                object = decision_forest_model$predictive.model,
                                                newdata = housing_test,
                                                id.column = "sn",
                                                detailed = FALSE,
                                                terms = c("homestyle")
                                                )

  # Example 3 - Use the generated model to predict the probabilities for 'homestyle' on the
  # test data 'housing_test' of each sample.
  df_predict_mle_out1 <- td_decision_forest_predict_mle(object = decision_forest_model,
                                                        newdata = housing_test,
                                                        id.column = "sn",
                                                        detailed = FALSE,
                                                        output.response.probdist=TRUE,
                                                        terms = c("homestyle")
                                                        )

  # Example 4 - Use the generated model to predict 'homestyle' in the test data 'housing_test'
  # and probabilities of each label specified in the "output.response" argument. When
  # "output.responses" is used, "output.response.probdist" argument must be set to TRUE to
  # get probability values.
  df_predict_mle_out1 <-td_decision_forest_predict_mle(object = decision_forest_model,
                                           newdata = housing_test,
                                           id.column = "sn",
                                           detailed = FALSE,
                                           output.response.probdist = TRUE,
                                           output.responses = c('Eclectic','Classic','bungalow'),
                                           terms = c("homestyle")
                                           )