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Python Data Analysis Cookbook
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Python Data Analysis Cookbook

by Ivan Idris
July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Comparing results with a dummy classifier

The scikit-learn DummyClassifier class implements several strategies for random guessing, which can serve as a baseline for classifiers. The strategies are as follows:

  • stratified: This uses the training set class distribution
  • most_frequent: This predicts the most frequent class
  • prior: This is available in scikit-learn 0.17 and predicts by maximizing the class prior
  • uniform: This uses an uniform distribution to randomly sample classes
  • constant: This predicts a user-specified class

As you can see, some strategies of the DummyClassifier class always predict the same class. This can lead to warnings from some scikit-learn metrics functions. We will perform the same analysis as we did in the Computing precision, ...

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ISBN: 9781785282287