Tree-Based Machine Learning Methods in SAS Viya

Decision trees and tree-based ensembles are supervised learning models used for problems involving classification and regression. This course covers everything from using a single tree to more advanced bagging and boosting ensemble methods in SAS Viya. The course includes discussions of tree-structured predictive models and the methodology for growing, pruning, and assessing decision trees, forest models, and gradient boosting models. The course also explains isolation forest (an unsupervised learning algorithm for anomaly detection), deep forest (an alternative for neural network deep learning), and Poisson and Tweedie gradient boosted regression trees. In addition, many of the auxiliary uses of trees, such as exploratory data analysis, dimension reduction, and missing value imputation, are examined, and running open source in SAS and running SAS in open source are demonstrated for tree-based ensemble models.

The self-study e-learning includes:

• Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
• Virtual lab time to practice.

Apprendre à

• Build tree-structured models, including classification trees and regression trees.
• Use the methodology for growing, pruning, and assessing decision trees.
• Build tree-based ensemble models, including forest and gradient boosting.
• Run isolation forest and Poisson and Tweedie gradient boosted regression tree models.
• Provide an introduction to deep forest models.
• Implement open source in SAS and SAS in open source.
• Use decision trees for exploratory data analysis, dimension reduction, and missing value imputation.

A qui s’adresse cette formation ?

Predictive modelers and data analysts who want to build decision trees and ensembles of decision trees using SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning in SAS Viya

Formats de formation disponibles	Durée standard (peut varier selon les sessions. Se référer au calendrier)
Formations à distance:	6 sessions d'une demi-journée chacune
e-Learning:	21 heures/180 jour licence

Before attending this course, you should have the following:

• An understanding of basic statistical concepts. You can gain this knowledge from the SAS Visual Statistics : Construction Interactive de Modèles course.
• Familiarity with SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning software. You can gain this knowledge from the Machine Learning avec SAS Viya course.

Cette formation concerne SAS Viya, SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning logiciel

Introduction to Decision Trees

• Tree-structured models.
• Tree-based models in SAS Viya.
• Regression trees.

Growing a Decision Tree

• Recursive partitioning.
• Split search.
• Splitting criteria.
• Missing values and variable importance.

Preventing Overfitting in Decision Trees

• Pruning.
• Cross validation.
• Autotuning.
• Secondary uses of decision trees.

Ensembles of Trees: Bagging, Boosting, and Forest

• Bagging and boosting.
• Forest models.
• Open-source random forest models.
• Isolation forest models.
• Introducing deep forest models.

Tree-Based Gradient Boosting Machines

• Overview of gradient boosting.
• Tuning a gradient boosting model.
• Gradient boosting for transfer learning.
• Gradient boosted Poisson and Tweedie regression trees.
• SAS gradient boosting using open source.

A Practice Case Study

• Data exploration.
• Creating decision trees.
• Out-of-time testing.
• Creating tree-based ensemble models.
• Hyperparameter tuning.
• Model comparison.