Extraction of rules from Support Vector Machines
2011/12/17 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
I am using the svm() function of package e1071 for creating Support Vector Machines prediction models. As far as I understand, there is no function in this package to extract rules of prediction. Is there some other package with such a functionality?
Those "rules" are implicitly stored in the object that is returned by svm() and they can be applied using predict(). A nice output and particularly an interpretation of the estimates is much harder and I don't know about such functionality.
Thanks, Uwe, for your answer. I was looking for human readable rules. Meanwhile, I found this reference, which I intend to have a look at: Rule Extraction from Support Vector Machines http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-540-75389-6 Paul