convert_categorical: Data proprosess function that covnerts a categorical input to...

In rz1988/deeplearning: An Implementation of Deep Neural Network for Regression and Classification

Description

Proprosess a data set. It converts categorical data into binary variables if it is unordered or continuous variable from 0 to 1 if it is ordinal

Usage

convert_categorical(x, type = "ordinal", ordered_list = list(),
  var_name = "var", ...)

Arguments

x	input variable
type	ordinal or other
ordered_list	the rank ordering of an ordinal variable. Users are expected to provide a complete list of the rank ordering. Otherwise, a default rank ordering will be used.
var_name	the name of the input variable. This is used to to create vectorized input variables
...	other inputs

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