PDtoolkit (version 1.2.0)

replace.woe: Replace modalities of risk factor with weights of evidence (WoE) value

Description

replace.woe replaces modalities of risk factor with calculated WoE value. This function process only categorical risk factors, thus it is assumed that numerical risk factors are previously categorized. Additional info report (second element of function output - info data frame), if produced, includes:

• rf: Risk factor name.

• reason.code: Reason code takes value 1 if inappropriate class of risk factor is identified. It takes value 2 if maximum number of categories exceeds 10, while 3 if there are any problem with weights of evidence (WoE) calculations (usually if any bin contains only good or bad cases). If validation 1 and 3 are observed, risk factor is not process for WoE replacement.

• comment: Reason description.

Usage

replace.woe(db, target)

Value

The command replace.woe returns the list of two data frames. The first one contains WoE replacement of analyzed risk factors' modalities, while the second data frame reports results of above mentioned validations regarding class of the risk factors, number of modalities and WoE calculation.

Arguments

db

Data frame of categorical risk factors and target variable supplied for WoE coding.

target

Name of target variable within db argument..

Examples

suppressMessages(library(PDtoolkit))
data(gcd)
#categorize numeric risk factor
gcd$maturity.bin <- ndr.bin(x = gcd$maturity, y = gcd$qual, y.type = "bina")[[2]]
gcd$amount.bin <- ndr.bin(x = gcd$amount, y = gcd$qual, y.type = "bina")[[2]]
gcd$age.bin <- ndr.bin(x = gcd$age, y = gcd$qual, y.type = "bina")[[2]]
head(gcd)
#replace modalities with WoE values
woe.rep <- replace.woe(db = gcd, target = "qual")
#results overview
head(woe.rep[[1]])
woe.rep[[2]]