Terminology: Independent or dependent variable?

[shleeneu]

In the lares package, I noticed what you mean by "independent" variable is the outcome variable. However, in most textbooks, the outcome variable is commonly referred to as the "response" or "dependent" variable, whereas the "independent" variable mostly refers to "predictors" or "features". See the textbook "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R", page 16.

I'd suggest updating the terminology wherever it appears.

[laresbernardo]

Thanks for your feedback @shleeneu
Can you share a couple of examples of where this is happening in the code/documentation? We can fix whatever is wrong and consider improving the wording for parameters if needed.

[shleeneu]

Here are a few instances:

• lares/R/model_preprocessing.R

  Line 11 in fc16282

  #' @param y Character. Column name for independent variable.

• https://github.com/laresbernardo/lares/blob/fc162820c5b51c6cead9a7c6b6779532ae289399/R/model_functions.R#L31C1-L31C1

• lares/R/model_functions.R

  Line 33 in fc16282

  #' @param y Variable or Character. Name of the independent variable.

• lares/R/model_plots.R

  Line 835 in fc16282

  #' unique values the independent variable (tag) has.

• lares/vignettes/h2o_automl.Rmd

  Line 29 in fc16282

  1. Input a dataframe `df` and choose which one is the independent variable (`y`) you'd like to predict. You may set/change the `seed` argument to guarantee reproducibility of your results.

• lares/man/h2o_results.Rd

  Line 30 in fc16282

  \item{y}{Variable or Character. Name of the independent variable.}

• lares/man/model_preprocess.Rd

  Line 28 in fc16282

  the independent variable labeled as \code{'tag'}. If you want to define

• lares/man/tree_var.Rd

  Line 25 in fc16282

  \item{y}{Variable or Character. Name of the independent variable.}

Please note there are a few other places. I want to make sure I am not misunderstanding your code.

[laresbernardo]

Ah yes, you're absolutely right @shleeneu Don't know why it took so long for someone (including me) to notice. Will fix it ASAP! Thanks for reporting it

[laresbernardo]

I've fixed the documentation. There was no need to change any parameter name so it was an easy fix. Feel free to close this issue if you agree

[shleeneu]

Awesome, glad to have helped. Just one more:

lares/vignettes/h2o_automl.Rmd

Line 29 in 897269c

1. Input a dataframe `df` and choose which one is the independent variable (`y`) you'd like to predict. You may set/change the `seed` argument to guarantee reproducibility of your results.

[laresbernardo]

Fixed, thanks!!