mlr3 (version 0.18.0)

mlr_tasks_german_credit: German Credit Classification Task

Description

A classification task for the German credit data set. The aim is to predict creditworthiness, labeled as "good" and "bad". Positive class is set to label "good".

See example for the creation of a MeasureClassifCosts as described misclassification costs.

Format

R6::R6Class inheriting from TaskClassif.

Dictionary

This Task can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_tasks or with the associated sugar function tsk():

mlr_tasks$get("german_credit")
tsk("german_credit")

Meta Information

• Task type: “classif”

• Dimensions: 1000x21

• Properties: “twoclass”

• Has Missings: FALSE

• Target: “credit_risk”

• Features: “age”, “amount”, “credit_history”, “duration”, “employment_duration”, “foreign_worker”, “housing”, “installment_rate”, “job”, “number_credits”, “other_debtors”, “other_installment_plans”, “people_liable”, “personal_status_sex”, “present_residence”, “property”, “purpose”, “savings”, “status”, “telephone”

References

Grömping U (2019). “South German Credit Data: Correcting a Widely Used Data Set.” Reports in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 4, Department II, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. http://www1.beuth-hochschule.de/FB_II/reports/Report-2019-004.pdf.

See Also

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html

• Package mlr3data for more toy tasks.

• Package mlr3oml for downloading tasks from https://www.openml.org.

• Package mlr3viz for some generic visualizations.

• Dictionary of Tasks: mlr_tasks

• as.data.table(mlr_tasks) for a table of available Tasks in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• mlr3fselect and mlr3filters for feature selection and feature filtering.

• Extension packages for additional task types:

  • Unsupervised clustering: mlr3cluster

  • Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/.

Other Task: Task, TaskClassif, TaskRegr, TaskSupervised, TaskUnsupervised, mlr_tasks, mlr_tasks_boston_housing, mlr_tasks_breast_cancer, mlr_tasks_iris, mlr_tasks_mtcars, mlr_tasks_penguins, mlr_tasks_pima, mlr_tasks_sonar, mlr_tasks_spam, mlr_tasks_wine, mlr_tasks_zoo

Examples

task = tsk("german_credit")
costs = matrix(c(0, 1, 5, 0), nrow = 2)
dimnames(costs) = list(predicted = task$class_names, truth = task$class_names)
measure = msr("classif.costs", id = "german_credit_costs", costs = costs)
print(measure)