dot-calculate_columns_means: calculate list of columns mean of target by column value

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Output a data.table that contains list of columns mean target by column value

Usage

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.calculate_columns_means(
  mean_target_colnames,
  target_colname,
  data,
  min_samples_leaf = 0,
  smoothing = 1
)

Arguments

mean_target_colnames

list of column names that needs mean target encoding

target_colname

target column name, should be numeric

data

dataset used to calculate mean target, usually is the training dataset

min_samples_leaf

minimum quantity per column value we consider needs to be calculate mean.

smoothing

used to adjust column value mean target from grand target value, default value 1 is to ignore grand target value

Value

a data.table contains mean target per column value for list of columns


ddzr/XL.RPackage documentation built on June 8, 2020, 12:36 a.m.