caravan.train {agtboost}

The Insurance Company (TIC) Benchmark

Description

caravan.train and caravan.test both contain a design matrix with 85 columns and a response vector. The train set consists of 70% of the data, with 4075 rows. The test set consists of the remaining 30% with 1747 rows. The following references the documentation within the ISLR package: The original data contains 5822 real customer records. Each record consists of 86 variables, containing sociodemographic data (variables 1-43) and product ownership (variables 44-86). The sociodemographic data is derived from zip codes. All customers living in areas with the same zip code have the same sociodemographic attributes. Variable 86 (Purchase) indicates whether the customer purchased a caravan insurance policy. Further information on the individual variables can be obtained at http://www.liacs.nl/~putten/library/cc2000/data.html

Usage

caravan.train; caravan.test

Format

Lists with a design matrix x and response y

Source

The data was originally supplied by Sentient Machine Research and was used in the CoIL Challenge 2000.

References

P. van der Putten and M. van Someren (eds) . CoIL Challenge 2000: The Insurance Company Case. Published by Sentient Machine Research, Amsterdam. Also a Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Technical Report 2000-09. June 22, 2000. See http://www.liacs.nl/~putten/library/cc2000/
P. van der Putten and M. van Someren. A Bias-Variance Analysis of a Real World Learning Problem: The CoIL Challenge 2000. Machine Learning, October 2004, vol. 57, iss. 1-2, pp. 177-195, Kluwer Academic Publishers
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, https://trevorhastie.github.io/ISLR/, Springer-Verlag, New York

Examples

summary(caravan.train)
summary(caravan.test)