Helper functions

Many of the modules in the ISLP module contain just a few helper functions.

• Clustering
  • Make a toy dataset
  • Cluster it
  • Plot the dendrogram
• Generalized Additive Models
  • Make a toy dataset
  • Create a GAM
  • Plot the partial dependence plot for first feature
  • Fixing degrees of freedom
    • Create a new GAM with the correctly fixed terms
• Survival Analysis
  • Define a cumulative hazard
  • Plot survival function
• Support Vector Machines
  • Make a toy dataset
  • Fit an SVM classifier
  • Slicing through different features