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Support vector machines

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  • Nick Guenther

    (University of Waterloo)

  • Matthias Schonlau

    (University of Waterloo)

Abstract

Support vector machines are statistical- and machine-learning techniques with the primary goal of prediction. They can be applied to continuous, binary, and categorical outcomes analogous to Gaussian, logistic, and multinomial regression. We introduce a new command for this purpose, svmachines. This package is a thin wrapper for the widely deployed libsvm (Chang and Lin, 2011, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2(3): Article 27). We illustrate svmachines with two examples. Copyright 2016 by StataCorp LP.

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  • Nick Guenther & Matthias Schonlau, 2016. "Support vector machines," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 16(4), pages 917-937, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:16:y:2016:i:4:p:917-937
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