klaR (version 0.6-1)

plot.woe: Plot information values

Description

Barplot of information values to compare dicriminator of the transformed variables.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'woe':
plot(x, type = c("IV", "woes"), ...)

Arguments

x
An object of class woe.
type
Character to specify the plot type, see below. Either "IV" (default) or "woes".
...
Further arguments to be passed to the barplot function.

Value

  • No value is returned.

Details

For type=="IV" a barplot of information values for all transformed variables. A thumb rule of interpretation is that Values above 0.3 are considered as strongly discrimative where values below 0.02 are considered to characterize unpredictive variables. For type=="woes" for each variable the relative frequencies of all transformed levels are plotted.

References

Good, I. (1950): Probability and the Weighting of Evidences. Charles Griffin, London. Kullback, S. (1959): Information Theory and Statistics. Wiley, New York.

See Also

woe, predict.woe

Examples

Run this code
# see examples in ?woe

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