November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
959 pages
43h 46m
English
You might build a classification model and want to evaluate the model by comparing the model's predictions with the actual outcomes. You will typically do this on the holdout data. Getting an idea of how the model does in training data itself is also useful, but you should never use that as an objective measure.
If you have not already downloaded the files for this chapter, do so now and ensure that the college-perf.csv file is in your R working directory. The file has data about a set of college students. The Perf variable has their college performance classified as High, Medium, or Low. The Pred variable contains a classification model's predictions of the performance level. The ...
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