[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-dfa-analysis-objects]]
=== Analysis configuration objects

{dfanalytics-cap} resources contain `analysis` objects. For example, when you
create a {dfanalytics-job}, you must define the type of analysis it performs. 
This page lists all the available parameters that you can use in the `analysis` 
object grouped by {dfanalytics} types.


[discrete]
[[oldetection-resources]]
==== {oldetection-cap} configuration objects 

An `outlier_detection` configuration object has the following properties:

`compute_feature_influence`::
(Optional, boolean) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=compute-feature-influence]
  
`feature_influence_threshold`:: 
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=feature-influence-threshold]

`method`::
(Optional, string)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=method]
  
`n_neighbors`::
(Optional, integer)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=n-neighbors]
  
`outlier_fraction`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=outlier-fraction]
  
`standardization_enabled`::
(Optional, boolean) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=standardization-enabled]


[discrete]
[[regression-resources]]
==== {regression-cap} configuration objects

[source,console]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ml/data_frame/analytics/house_price_regression_analysis
{
  "source": {
    "index": "houses_sold_last_10_yrs" <1>
  },
  "dest": {
    "index": "house_price_predictions" <2>
  },
  "analysis": 
    {
      "regression": { <3>
        "dependent_variable": "price" <4>
      }
    }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[skip:TBD]

<1> Training data is taken from source index `houses_sold_last_10_yrs`.
<2> Analysis results will be output to destination index 
`house_price_predictions`.
<3> The regression analysis configuration object.
<4> Regression analysis will use field `price` to train on. As no other 
parameters have been specified it will train on 100% of eligible data, store its 
prediction in destination index field `price_prediction` and use in-built 
hyperparameter optimization to give minimum validation errors.


[float]
[[regression-resources-standard]]
===== Standard parameters

`dependent_variable`::
(Required, string)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=dependent-variable]
+
--
The data type of the field must be numeric.
--

`prediction_field_name`::
(Optional, string)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=prediction-field-name]

`training_percent`::
(Optional, integer)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=training-percent]

`randomize_seed`::
(Optional, long)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=randomize-seed]


[float]
[[regression-resources-advanced]]
===== Advanced parameters

Advanced parameters are for fine-tuning {reganalysis}. They are set 
automatically by <<ml-hyperparam-optimization,hyperparameter optimization>> 
to give minimum validation error. It is highly recommended to use the default 
values unless you fully understand the function of these parameters. If these 
parameters are not supplied, their values are automatically tuned to give 
minimum validation error.

`eta`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=eta]

`feature_bag_fraction`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=feature-bag-fraction]

`maximum_number_trees`::
(Optional, integer) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=maximum-number-trees]

`gamma`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=gamma]

`lambda`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=lambda]


[discrete]
[[classification-resources]]
==== {classification-cap} configuration objects 
 
 
[float]
[[classification-resources-standard]]
===== Standard parameters
 
`dependent_variable`::
(Required, string)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=dependent-variable]
+
--
The data type of the field must be numeric (`integer`, `short`, `long`, `byte`), 
categorical (`ip`, `keyword`, `text`), or boolean.
--
  
`num_top_classes`::
(Optional, integer)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=num-top-classes]
 
`prediction_field_name`::
(Optional, string) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=prediction-field-name]

`training_percent`::
(Optional, integer) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=training-percent]

`randomize_seed`::
(Optional, long)
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=randomize-seed]


[float]
[[classification-resources-advanced]]
===== Advanced parameters

Advanced parameters are for fine-tuning {classanalysis}. They are set 
automatically by <<ml-hyperparam-optimization,hyperparameter optimization>> 
to give minimum validation error. It is highly recommended to use the default 
values unless you fully understand the function of these parameters. If these 
parameters are not supplied, their values are automatically tuned to give 
minimum validation error.

`eta`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=eta]

`feature_bag_fraction`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=feature-bag-fraction]

`maximum_number_trees`::
(Optional, integer) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=maximum-number-trees]

`gamma`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=gamma]

`lambda`::
(Optional, double) 
include::{docdir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=lambda]

[discrete]
[[ml-hyperparam-optimization]]
==== Hyperparameter optimization

If you don't supply {regression} or {classification} parameters, hyperparameter 
optimization will be performed by default to set a value for the undefined 
parameters. The starting point is calculated for data dependent parameters by 
examining the loss on the training data. Subject to the size constraint, this 
operation provides an upper bound on the improvement in validation loss.

A fixed number of rounds is used for optimization which depends on the number of 
parameters being optimized. The optimization starts with random search, then 
Bayesian optimization is performed that is targeting maximum expected 
improvement. If you override any parameters, then the optimization will 
calculate the value of the remaining parameters accordingly and use the value 
you provided for the overridden parameter. The number of rounds are reduced 
respectively. The validation error is estimated in each round by using 4-fold 
cross validation.