ArbitraryDiscretiser#
- class feature_engine.discretisation.ArbitraryDiscretiser(binning_dict, return_object=False, return_boundaries=False, errors='ignore')[source]#
The ArbitraryDiscretiser() divides numerical variables into intervals which limits are determined by the user. Thus, it works only with numerical variables.
You need to enter a dictionary with variable names as keys, and a list with the limits of the intervals as values. For example the key could be the variable name ‘var1’ and the value the following list: [0, 10, 100, 1000]. The ArbitraryDiscretiser() will then sort var1 values into the intervals 0-10, 10-100, 100-1000, and var2 into 5-10, 10-15 and 15-20. Similar to
pandas.cut.More details in the User Guide.
- Parameters
- binning_dict: dict
The dictionary with the variable to interval limits pairs.
- return_object: bool, default=False
Whether the the discrete variable should be returned as numeric or as object. If you would like to proceed with the engineering of the variable as if it was categorical, use True. Alternatively, keep the default to False.
- return_boundaries: bool, default=False
Whether the output should be the interval boundaries. If True, it returns the interval boundaries. If False, it returns integers.
- errors: string, default=’ignore’
Indicates what to do when a value is outside the limits indicated in the ‘binning_dict’. If ‘raise’, the transformation will raise an error. If ‘ignore’, values outside the limits are returned as NaN and a warning will be raised instead.
- Attributes
- binner_dict_:
Dictionary with the interval limits per variable.
- variables_:
The group of variables that will be transformed.
- feature_names_in_:
List with the names of features seen during
fit.- n_features_in_:
The number of features in the train set used in fit.
See also
pandas.cut
Methods
fit:
This transformer does not learn parameters.
fit_transform:
Fit to data, then transform it.
get_feature_names_out:
Get output feature names for transformation.
get_params:
Get parameters for this estimator.
set_params:
Set the parameters of this estimator.
transform:
Sort continuous variable values into the intervals.
- fit(X, y=None)[source]#
This transformer does not learn any parameter.
- Parameters
- X: pandas dataframe of shape = [n_samples, n_features]
The training dataset. Can be the entire dataframe, not just the variables to be transformed.
- y: None
y is not needed in this transformer. You can pass y or None.
- fit_transform(X, y=None, **fit_params)[source]#
Fit to data, then transform it.
Fits transformer to
Xandywith optional parametersfit_paramsand returns a transformed version ofX.- Parameters
- Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)
Input samples.
- yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs), default=None
Target values (None for unsupervised transformations).
- **fit_paramsdict
Additional fit parameters.
- Returns
- X_newndarray array of shape (n_samples, n_features_new)
Transformed array.
- get_feature_names_out(input_features=None)[source]#
Get output feature names for transformation.
- Parameters
- input_features: str, list, default=None
If
None, then the names of all the variables in the transformed dataset is returned. If list with feature names, the features in the list will be returned. This parameter exists mostly for compatibility with the Scikit-learn Pipeline.
- Returns
- get_params(deep=True)[source]#
Get parameters for this estimator.
- Parameters
- deepbool, default=True
If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.
- Returns
- paramsdict
Parameter names mapped to their values.
- set_params(**params)[source]#
Set the parameters of this estimator.
The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as
Pipeline). The latter have parameters of the form<component>__<parameter>so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.- Parameters
- **paramsdict
Estimator parameters.
- Returns
- selfestimator instance
Estimator instance.
- transform(X)[source]#
Sort the variable values into the intervals.
- Parameters
- X: pandas dataframe of shape = [n_samples, n_features]
The dataframe to be transformed.
- Returns
- X_new: pandas dataframe of shape = [n_samples, n_features]
The transformed data with the discrete variables.
- :rtype:py:class:
~pandas.core.frame.DataFrame