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xgb.max_kappa: xgboost evaluation metric for maximum Kappa statistic

Description

This function allows xgboost to use a custom thresholding method to maximize the Kappa statistic. You can use this function via eval_metric. It leaks memory over time, but it can be reclaimed using gc().

Usage

xgb.max_kappa(pred, dtrain)

Arguments

pred
Type: numeric. The predictions.
dtrain
Type: xgb.DMatrix. The training data.

Value

The maximum Kappa statistic for binary data.