Abstract

The prediction profiler as it is now called in the statistical software, JMP, was introduced at a talk with discussion entitled, “An Interactive Graph for Exploring Multidimensional Response Surfaces.” The talk was part of a session at the Joint Statistics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia in 1991. The original intent of the plot was to provide a graph to display the fitted response surface from a designed experiment even if that experiment had many responses and more than two factors. In the last 30 years, however, the prediction profile plot has transcended its original use in displaying the results of response surface experiments. It has shown its utility in displaying the prediction functions coming from classification or regression trees or neural nets among other modern analytical tools for the study of observational data. There are also pedagogical uses of the plot for developing intuition about mathematical functions having multiple inputs. This article provides a detailed description of the plot and examples of its various uses.

摘要

现在在统计软件中称为 JMP 的预测分析器是在一次题为“用于探索多维响应面的交互式图”的讨论中介绍的。该演讲是 1991 年在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的联合统计会议上的一个会议的一部分。该图的初衷是提供一个图表来显示设计实验的拟合响应曲面，即使该实验有许多响应并且超过两个因素。然而，在过去 30 年中，预测剖面图已经超越了其最初用于显示响应面实验结果的用途。它在显示来自分类或回归树或神经网络的预测函数以及用于研究观察数据的其他现代分析工具方面显示了其实用性。该图还有教学用途，可以培养对具有多个输入的数学函数的直觉。本文详细描述了情节及其各种用途的示例。