A gentle introduction to SHAP values in R

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2024
Interpretable machine learning
Author

Steve Simon

Published

July 10, 2024

Figure 1. Excerpt from website

SHAP values provide you a way to interpret the impact of individual independent variables in a variety of “black box” machine learning models, such as Random Forest. It looks at how a prediction changes when a variable is not included in the model. This page shows how to fit SHAP values using R.

  • Pablo Casas. A gentle introduction to SHAP values in R. Data Science Heroes blog, 2019-03-18. Available in html format.

An earlier version of this page was published on new.pmean.com.