Python Feature Engineering Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's begin with the recipe by making some imports and preparing the data:

1. Import pandas and the required functions and classes:

import pandas as pdfrom sklearn.model_selection import train_test_splitfrom feature_engine.categorical_encoders import WoERatioCategoricalEncoder

2. Let's load the dataset and divide it into train and test sets:

data = pd.read_csv('creditApprovalUCI.csv')X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(        data, data['A16'],test_size=0.3, random_state=0)

3. Let's create a pandas Series with the probability of the target being 1, that is, p(1), for each category in A1:

p1 = X_train.groupby(['A1'])['A16'].mean()

4.  Let's create a pandas Series with the probability of the target being 0, that is,