Statistics toolbox predict new data non linear regression

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Hi!
After building a non linear model, the example in the matlab statistics toolbox predicts new data. I dont understand
'Xnew = [200,200,200;100,200,100;500,50,5];'
- we have 3 columns with each 13 rows and our output rate. Why does this row has 9 values? And what does ypred?
Please see below the example:
This is our data (X):
470 300 10
285 80 10
470 300 120
470 80 120
470 80 10
100 190 10
100 80 65
470 190 65
100 300 54
100 300 120
100 80 120
285 300 10
285 190 120
Data output(Y):
8.55000000000000
3.79000000000000
4.82000000000000
0.0200000000000000
2.75000000000000
14.3900000000000
2.54000000000000
4.35000000000000
13
8.50000000000000
0.0500000000000000
11.3200000000000
3.13000000000000
.... (Building model - Step 1-5)....
Step 6. Predict for new data
Create some new data and predict the response from both models.
Xnew = [200,200,200;100,200,100;500,50,5];
[ypred yci] = predict(mdl,Xnew)
ypred =
1.8762
6.2793
1.6718
yci =
1.6283 2.1242
5.9789 6.5797
1.5589 1.7846
[ypred1 yci1] = predict(mdl1,Xnew)
ypred1 =
1.8984
6.2555
1.6594
yci1 =
1.6260 2.1708
5.9323 6.5787
1.5345 1.7843
Even though the model coefficients are dissimilar, the predictions are nearly identical.
Thank you!

Accepted Answer

Roger Wohlwend
Roger Wohlwend on 17 Jun 2014
They estimate a non-linear model that has three independent variables (input variables) and five coefficients. Then they predict, that means they calculate the output for certain values of the input variables. For an output value they have to feed the values with three input values because the model contains three independent variables. They do that three times. They caluclate three output values, that is why the matrix for the input variables is a 3 x 3 matrix: three times the three values for the input variables. So Xnew is not a row vector of 9 elements as you write in your question but a 3 x 3 matrix. The variable ypred contains the three values of the output variable that were calcualted based on the matrix Xnew.
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Roger Wohlwend
Roger Wohlwend on 18 Jun 2014
The histogramm tells you that there is a value greater than 12, and that value could be an outlier.
Tania
Tania on 29 Jun 2014
Sry, but I still dont get it, how do you see that? using plot residuals doesnt really help me.. do not understand how i can see that there is a value greater than 12...Thanks :)

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