projection-pursuit 0.7

Scikit-learn estimators based on projection pursuit.

# Projection Pursuit [](https://travis-ci.org/pavelkomarov/projection-pursuit) [](https://coveralls.io/github/pavelkomarov/projection-pursuit?branch=master&service=github)

This repository is home to a couple [scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/)-compatible estimators based on Jerome Friedman’s generalizations[1] of his and Werner Stuetzle’s Projection Pursuit Regression algorithm[2][3]. A regressor capable of multivariate estimation and a classifier based on regression to a one-hot multivariate representation are included.

## Installation and Usage The package by itself comes with a single module containing the estimators. Before installing the module you will need numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. To install the module execute:

`shell pip install projection-pursuit ` or `shell $ python setup.py install `

If the installation is successful, you should be able to execute the following in Python: `python >>> from skpp import ProjectionPursuitRegressor >>> estimator = ProjectionPursuitRegressor() >>> estimator.fit(np.arange(10).reshape(10, 1), np.arange(10)) `

Sphinx is run via continuous integration to generate [the API](https://rawgit.com/pavelkomarov/projection-pursuit/gh-pages/modules.html).

For a few usage examples, see the examples and benchmarks directories. For an intuition of what the learner is doing, try running viz_training_process.py. For comparisons to other learners and an intuition of why you might want to try PPR, try the benchmarks. For a deep dive in to the math and an explanation of exactly how and why this works, see [math.pdf](https://github.com/pavelkomarov/projection-pursuit/blob/master/doc/math.pdf).

## References

1. Friedman, Jerome. (1985). “Classification and Multiple Regression Through Projection Pursuit.” http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/3750/slac-pub-3824.pdf

2. Hastie, Tibshirani, & Friedman. (2016). The Elements of Statistical Learning 2nd Ed., section 11.2.

3. 2017. Projection pursuit regression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_pursuit_regression