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mlr (version 2.10)

makeMeasure: Construct performance measure.

Description

A measure object encapsulates a function to evaluate the performance of a prediction. Information about already implemented measures can be obtained here: measures. A learner is trained on a training set d1, results in a model m and predicts another set d2 (which may be a different one or the training set) resulting in the prediction. The performance measure can now be defined using all of the information of the original task, the fitted model and the prediction. Object slots:
id [character(1)]
See argument.
minimize [logical(1)]
See argument.
properties [character]
See argument.
fun [function]
See argument.
extra.args [list]
See argument.
aggr [Aggregation]
See argument.
best [numeric(1)]
See argument.
worst [numeric(1)]
See argument.
name [character(1)]
See argument.
note [character(1)]
See argument.

Usage

makeMeasure(id, minimize, properties = character(0L), fun,
  extra.args = list(), aggr = test.mean, best = NULL, worst = NULL,
  name = id, note = "")

Arguments

id
[character(1)] Name of measure.
minimize
[logical(1)] Should the measure be minimized? Default is TRUE.
properties
[character] Set of measure properties. Some standard property names include:
classif
Is the measure applicable for classification?
classif.multi
Is the measure applicable for multi-class classification?
multilabel
Is the measure applicable for multilabel classification?
regr
Is the measure applicable for regression?
surv
Is the measure applicable for survival?
costsens
Is the measure applicable for cost-sensitive learning?
req.pred
Is prediction object required in calculation? Usually the case.
req.truth
Is truth column required in calculation? Usually the case.
req.task
Is task object required in calculation? Usually not the case
req.model
Is model object required in calculation? Usually not the case.
req.feats
Are feature values required in calculation? Usually not the case.
req.prob
Are predicted probabilites required in calculation? Usually not the case, example would be AUC.

Default is character(0).

fun
[function(task, model, pred, feats, extra.args)] Calculates the performance value. Usually you will only need the prediction object pred.
task [Task]
The task.
model [WrappedModel]
The fitted model.
pred [Prediction]
Prediction object.
feats [data.frame]
The features.
extra.args [list]
See below.
extra.args
[list] List of extra arguments which will always be passed to fun. Default is empty list.
aggr
[Aggregation] Aggregation funtion, which is used to aggregate the values measured on test / training sets of the measure to a single value. Default is test.mean.
best
[numeric(1)] Best obtainable value for measure. Default is -Inf or Inf, depending on minimize.
worst
[numeric(1)] Worst obtainable value for measure. Default is Inf or -Inf, depending on minimize.
name
[character] Name of the measure. Default is id.
note
[character] Description and additional notes for the measure. Default is “”.

Value

[Measure].

See Also

Other performance: ConfusionMatrix, calculateConfusionMatrix, calculateROCMeasures, estimateRelativeOverfitting, makeCostMeasure, makeCustomResampledMeasure, measures, performance

Examples

Run this code
f = function(task, model, pred, extra.args)
  sum((pred$data$response - pred$data$truth)^2)
makeMeasure(id = "my.sse", minimize = TRUE, properties = c("regr", "response"), fun = f)

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