ISYE6501 Office Hours

Week 8, Thursday
Agenda
• Homework 8 Solution Review
• Up Next
HW8 Solution Review – Advanced Regression
Q11.1 Using the crime data set uscrime.txt from Questions 8.2, 9.1,
and 10.1, build a regression model using:
1. Stepwise regression
• step()
2. LASSO
• cv.glmnet() function in R; alpha = 1 (𝜆 analogous to 𝜏 from the lectures)
𝑗
• σ𝑖=1 𝑎𝑖 ≤ 𝜏
3. ElasticNet
• cv.glmnet() function in R; vary alpha (𝜆 analogous to 𝜏 from the lectures)
𝑗 𝑗
• 𝜆 σ𝑖=1 𝑎𝑖 + 1 − 𝜆 σ𝑖=1 𝑎𝑖2 ≤ 𝜏

• Takeaways
• Variable selection ultimately made a big difference (less overfit models
compared to other HWs)
• PCA didn’t help in this case, but it’s a tool at your disposal (can
be combined with others)
HW9 Preview – Design of Experiments
Q12.1 – describe a situation or problem from your job, everyday life, current
events, etc., for which a design of experiments approach would be
appropriate

Q12.2 - to determine the value of 10 different yes/no features to the market

value of a house (large yard, solar roof, etc.), a real estate agent plans to
survey 50 potential buyers, showing a fictitious house with different
combinations of features. To reduce the survey size, the agent wants to
show just 16 fictitious houses. Use R’s FrF2 function (in the FrF2 package)
to find a fractional factorial design for this experiment

Note – no data set is required for Q12.2

HW9 Preview – Probabilistic Distributions
Q13.1 – for each of the following distributions, provide an original
example of data that you would expect to follow this distribution

a. Binomial
b. Geometric
c. Poisson
d. Exponential
e. Weibull
HW9 Preview – Simulation
• Q13.2 – Airport simulation
• Passengers arrive at an airport with given distributions for arrival rate and
inter-arrival time
• They need their IDs checked and baggage scanned; each has a service
capacity
• How many ID checkers / baggage scanners do you need to keep the
average max wait time below 15 minutes?
HW9 Preview – Simulation
• Option 1 – Arena
• PC only (I’ve heard it runs via emulation on Mac and Linux)
• https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/software/arena-
simulation/academic.html
• Click Download Free Trial; enter deets
• Will be sent download link via email
• License key = STUDENT
• SMARTS/Examples
• GT ONLY: https://mycloud.gatech.edu
• ISYE-2021 or ISYE-SIMIO desktop (don’t use the Apps feature; there’s issues with multi-
window stuff)
• DO NOT save to your desktop (remember it’s a VM); only use your Prism drive (P)
HW9 Preview – Simulation
• Option 2 – SimPy
• All platforms
• Python-based simulation language
• Yup, week 6 and another new language (hint: it’s going to come up again… and again… and
again)
• Python.org
• Anaconda Navigator (lots of excellent tutorials) (anaconda.org)
• No GUI like Arena, you’ve got to code everything yourself
• https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Installing – easiest is to use pip: pip install simpy
• Crash course: https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/simpy_intro/index.html
• Carwash example: https://simpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/carwash.html

Not supported (i.e., we can't offer tech support), but Google Colab has been
successfully used by students in the past
• Install SimPy with shell command in your notebook: !pip install simpy
Up Next…
• HW8 peer reviews due Sunday/Monday, HW9 due
Wednesday/Thursday