Imputation estimator for completing missing values, either using the mean or the median of the columns in which the missing values are located. The input columns should be of numeric type. This function requires Spark 2.2.0+.
ft_imputer(
x,
input_cols = NULL,
output_cols = NULL,
missing_value = NULL,
strategy = "mean",
uid = random_string("imputer_"),
...
)The object returned depends on the class of x.
spark_connection: When x is a spark_connection, the function returns a ml_transformer,
a ml_estimator, or one of their subclasses. The object contains a pointer to
a Spark Transformer or Estimator object and can be used to compose
Pipeline objects.
ml_pipeline: When x is a ml_pipeline, the function returns a ml_pipeline with
the transformer or estimator appended to the pipeline.
tbl_spark: When x is a tbl_spark, a transformer is constructed then
immediately applied to the input tbl_spark, returning a tbl_spark
A spark_connection, ml_pipeline, or a tbl_spark.
The names of the input columns
The names of the output columns.
The placeholder for the missing values. All occurrences of
missing_value will be imputed. Note that null values are always treated
as missing.
The imputation strategy. Currently only "mean" and "median" are supported. If "mean", then replace missing values using the mean value of the feature. If "median", then replace missing values using the approximate median value of the feature. Default: mean
A character string used to uniquely identify the feature transformer.
Optional arguments; currently unused.
In the case where x is a tbl_spark, the estimator fits against x
to obtain a transformer, which is then immediately used to transform x, returning a tbl_spark.
See https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-features.html for more information on the set of transformations available for DataFrame columns in Spark.
Other feature transformers:
ft_binarizer(),
ft_bucketizer(),
ft_chisq_selector(),
ft_count_vectorizer(),
ft_dct(),
ft_elementwise_product(),
ft_feature_hasher(),
ft_hashing_tf(),
ft_idf(),
ft_index_to_string(),
ft_interaction(),
ft_lsh,
ft_max_abs_scaler(),
ft_min_max_scaler(),
ft_ngram(),
ft_normalizer(),
ft_one_hot_encoder_estimator(),
ft_one_hot_encoder(),
ft_pca(),
ft_polynomial_expansion(),
ft_quantile_discretizer(),
ft_r_formula(),
ft_regex_tokenizer(),
ft_robust_scaler(),
ft_sql_transformer(),
ft_standard_scaler(),
ft_stop_words_remover(),
ft_string_indexer(),
ft_tokenizer(),
ft_vector_assembler(),
ft_vector_indexer(),
ft_vector_slicer(),
ft_word2vec()