detect_outcome_type: Detect outcome type from data

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Detect outcome type from data

Description

Automatically determines whether an outcome variable is binary, continuous, or count-based by examining the data values. Used for automatic model type selection and validation. Binary outcomes have 2 unique values, continuous have many values or non-integers, counts have integers >= 0.

Usage

detect_outcome_type(data, outcome)

Arguments

data	Data frame or data.table containing the outcome variable.
outcome	Character string naming the outcome variable.

Value

Character string: "binary", "continuous", "count", or "unknown".

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