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Relative importance index of dummy variables in regression model
LI Haichao, WANG Kaijun, HU Miao, CHEN Lifei
Journal of Computer Applications    2017, 37 (11): 3048-3052.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017.11.3048
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To describe the qualitative attributes in the regression model, it is usually necessary to introduce dummy variables. For the regression equation with dummy variables, a method was proposed to describe the different importance of the different dummy variables in the regression equation. The sums of square due to regression with dummy variables were descomposed, including the sum of the dummy variable part and that of non-dummy variable part, and the proportions of the two parts was calculated in the regression equation, and the proportion was taken as the index of relative importance of every dummy variable in regression equations. In sets of Lending Club and Prosper network with nearly 100 thousand lending data, the experimental results about the influence of the purpose of loan on the borrowing success rate and the influence of credit grade on the borrowing rate show that compared with the traditional regression equation which only provides a dummy variable coefficient and cannot shows its importance, the proposed method can show the importance of different dummy variables, and provide an important means to quantitatively analyze the influence degree of qualitative independent variables on the dependent variable in the regression equation.
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