Example Data Set(s) for nnet, rpart
Hi, I'm doing a presentation on Neural Networks and Tree-Based Models in two weeks, at the moment I'm looking for a data set to use in the presentation. What I would like to use is a good old data, like the Iris data, that is already known by every statisticians. MASS4 uses the cpus data in Chapter 8.10 and the Cushing's syndrome in Chapter 12.4. These two data sets plus the Iris data I have mentioned make three possible candidate data sets. Does anyone has a good recommendation as to which data set is better? While I'm at it. Is it technically correct to obtain (using residuals()) the residual sum of square from the nnet() and rpart() models. Then say one is better than the other based on the statistic?
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