How to Develop a Probabilistic Model of Breast Cancer Patient Survival
Last Updated on August 21, 2020
Developing a probabilistic model is challenging in general, although it is made more so when there is skew in the distribution of cases, referred to as an imbalanced dataset.
The Haberman Dataset describes the five year or greater survival of breast cancer patient patients in the 1950s and 1960s and mostly contains patients that survive. This standard machine learning dataset can be used as the basis of developing a probabilistic model that predicts the probability of survival of a patient given a few details of their case.
Given the skewed distribution in cases in the dataset, careful attention must be paid to both the choice of predictive models to ensure that calibrated probabilities are predicted, and to the choice of model evaluation to ensure that the models are selected based on the skill of their predicted probabilities rather than crisp survival vs. non-survival class labels.
In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop a model to predict the probability of patient survival on an imbalanced dataset.
After completing this tutorial, you will know:
- How to load and explore the dataset and generate ideas for data preparation and model selection.
- How to
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