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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion book/chapters/appendices/solutions.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -2162,10 +2162,12 @@ rows = seq_len(nrow(df))[df$race %in% c("Black", "White") & df$sex %in% c("Femal
adult_subset$filter(rows)
adult_subset$set_col_roles("race", add_to = "pta")
```

And evaluate our measure again:

```{r solutions-122}
prediction$score(msr_3, adult_subset)
#| eval: false
prediction$score(msr_3, task = adult_subset)
```

We can see, that between women there is an even bigger discrepancy compared to men.
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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions book/chapters/chapter1/introduction_and_overview.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ aliases:
- "/introduction_and_overview.html"
---


```{r}
# extra packages that must be installed in the docker image
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3")
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3pipelines")
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3fairness@weights")
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3learners")
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3batchmark")
remotes::install_cran("iml")
remotes::install_github("mlr-org/mlr3spatiotempcv@task_row_hash")
```

# Introduction and Overview {#sec-introduction}

{{< include ../../common/_setup.qmd >}}
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions book/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -1027,7 +1027,8 @@ There are seven column roles:
4. `"order"`: Variable(s) used to order data returned by `$data()`; must be sortable with `order()`.
5. `"group"`: Variable used to keep observations together during resampling.
6. `"stratum"`: Variable(s) to stratify during resampling.
7. `"weight"`: Observation weights. Only one numeric column may have this role.
7. `"weights_learner"`: Weights used during training by the learner. Only one numeric column may have this role.
8. `"weights_measure"`: Weights used during scoring by the measure. Only one numeric column may have this role.

We have already seen how features and targets work in @sec-tasks, which are the only column roles that each task must have.
In @sec-strat-group we will have a look at the `stratum` and `group` column roles.
Expand All @@ -1051,7 +1052,7 @@ tsk_mtcars_order$data(ordered = TRUE)
In this example we can see that by setting `"idx"` to have the `"order"` column role, it is no longer used as a feature when we run `$data()` but instead is used to order the observations according to its value.
This metadata is not passed to a learner.

The `weights` column role is used to weight data points differently.
The `weights_learner` column role is used to weight data points differently.
One example of why we would do this is in classification tasks with severe class imbalance, where weighting the minority class more heavily may improve the model's predictive performance for that class.
For example in the `breast_cancer` dataset, there are more instances of benign tumors than malignant tumors, so if we want to better predict malignant tumors we could weight the data in favor of this class:

Expand All @@ -1065,7 +1066,7 @@ df$weights = ifelse(df$class == "malignant", 2, 1)

# create new task and role
cancer_weighted = as_task_classif(df, target = "class")
cancer_weighted$set_col_roles("weights", roles = "weight")
cancer_weighted$set_col_roles("weights", roles = "weights_learner")

# compare weighted and unweighted predictions
split = partition(cancer_unweighted)
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions book/chapters/chapter9/preprocessing.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ magick::image_trim(fig)
Using this pipeline we can now run experiments with `lrn("regr.ranger")`, which cannot handle missing data; we also compare a simpler pipeline that only uses OOR imputation to demonstrate performance differences resulting from different strategies.

```{r preprocessing-015}
#| eval: false
glrn_rf_impute_hist = as_learner(impute_hist %>>% lrn("regr.ranger"))
glrn_rf_impute_hist$id = "RF_imp_Hist"

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We do not need to add the `PipeOp` to each learner as we can apply it once (as above) before any model training by applying it to all available data.

```{r preprocessing-026, warning=FALSE, R.options = list(datatable.print.nrows = 13, datatable.print.class = FALSE, datatable.print.keys = FALSE, datatable.print.trunc.cols = TRUE)}
#| eval: false
learners = list(lrn_baseline, lrn("regr.rpart"), glrn_xgb_impact,
glrn_rf_impute_oor, glrn_lm_robust, glrn_log_lm_robust)

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