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Why are dummy variables necessary in regression analysis?
A dummy variable is a numerical variable used in regression analysis to represent subgroups of the sample in your study. Dummy variables are useful because they enable us to use a single regression equation to represent multiple groups. …
Are dummy variables standardized?
So each dummy variable is automatically standardized with 0 meaning an observation is not of that species, and the coefficient for each tells you what you get when you change that value from 0 to 1.
Why do we create dummy variable for categorical variables in regression?
Because dummy coding compares the mean of the dependent variable for each level of the categorical variable to the mean of the dependent variable at for the reference group, it makes sense with a nominal variable. The values for these new variables will depend on coding system you choose.
How does glmnet’s standardize argument handle dummy variables?
In short, yes – this will standardize the dummy variables, but there’s a reason for doing so. The glmnet function takes a matrix as an input for its X parameter, not a data frame, so it doesn’t make the distinction for factor columns which you may have if the parameter was a data.frame.
How can I make glmnet standardize the non-categorical columns?
So it means that glmnet still cannot differentiate the categorical variables from the continuous variables and handle them differently. So how can I make glmnet standardize the non-categorical columns but not the categorical columns ?
What happens if you pass model.matrix to glmnet?
My question is if you pass this model.matrix into glmnet or cv.glmnet function with the argument standardize set to TRUE, it still scales those dummy variable columns, am I correct ? So it means that glmnet still cannot differentiate the categorical variables from the continuous variables and handle them differently.
How to rank variable importance in glmnet package?
To summarize, you can take the absolute value of the final coefficients and rank them. The ranked coefficients are your variable importance. If you don’t want to use caret package, you can run the following lines from the package, and it should work.