Explain the difference between R squared and Adjusted R squared ?
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Why do we have Adjusted R Squared, when we already have R squared error?
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As we add more and more useless or useful independent variables value of R2 always increases. Adjusted R square adjusts for the number of terms in a model. If you add more and more useless variables to a model, adjusted r-squared will decrease. If you add more useful variables, adjusted r-squared will increase. R2 assumes that every single variable explains the variation in the dependent variable. The adjusted R2 tells you the percentage of variation explained by only the independent variables that actually affect the dependent variable.
Adjusted R2 will always be less than or equal to R2.
Adjusted r-square penalizes for adding more and more variables into a regression model. R-square would keep on increasing, even if the added variable does not have any predictive power, but adjusted r-square would reflect the variable’s true value and would decrease.
R squared indicate proportion of variance in a dependent variable explained by set of independent variables. it is a measure of how well the regression equation represent the data in underlying relationship.
However R squared get inflated by adding more independent variables.
since RSS (residual sum of squared) decreases when number of independent variable increases i.e R squared is an increasing function of regression this may not be true because of additional of unnecessary independent variable will also increase the value of R squared giving the false expression the model is good fit to the data.
adjusted R square is modified version of R square that accounts for predictors that are not significant in a regression model in other words adjusted R square shows whether adding additional predictors improve a regression model or not.
R^2 is the coefficient of determination while adjusted R^2 is the coefficient of determination adjusted for the number of degrees of freedom.
The coefficient of determination gives the percentage of variation in the response variable due to the independent variable(s) considered for the model while the adjusted R^2 gives us an idea about the contribution of every new data point to the model when added one by one. The value of the coefficient of determination increases as more and more relatable independent variables (that is, the variables which can bring about a change in the dependent variable) are added to the model but the adjusted coefficient of determination will increase only if the considered independent variable significantly increase the efficiency of the model.
In simple terms, R^2 does not consider whether the variable getting added is significant enough or not to be included in the model. It will increase the coefficient of determination since the added variable is, in some way, is contributing to the explanation of the dependent variable. On the other hand, adjusted R^2 penalizes the model and will increases in value only if the new variable added improves the model.
Therefore, instead of adding the variables blindly to our model, it’s better to check for the adjusted R^2 side-wise.