mlr_tasks_breast_cancer {mlr3}

Wisconsin Breast Cancer Classification Task

Description

A classification task for the mlbench::BreastCancer data set.

• Column "Id" has been removed.

• Column names have been converted to snake_case.

• Positive class is set to "malignant".

• 16 incomplete cases have been removed from the data set.

• All factor features have been converted to ordered factors.

Format

R6::R6Class inheriting from TaskClassif.

Dictionary

This Task can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_tasks or with the associated sugar function tsk():

mlr_tasks$get("breast_cancer")
tsk("breast_cancer")

Meta Information

• Task type: “classif”

• Dimensions: 683x10

• Properties: “twoclass”

• Has Missings: FALSE

• Target: “class”

• Features: “bare_nuclei”, “bl_cromatin”, “cell_shape”, “cell_size”, “cl_thickness”, “epith_c_size”, “marg_adhesion”, “mitoses”, “normal_nucleoli”

See Also

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html

• Package mlr3data for more toy tasks.

• Package mlr3oml for downloading tasks from https://www.openml.org.

• Package mlr3viz for some generic visualizations.

• Dictionary of Tasks: mlr_tasks

• as.data.table(mlr_tasks) for a table of available Tasks in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• mlr3fselect and mlr3filters for feature selection and feature filtering.

• Extension packages for additional task types:

  • Unsupervised clustering: mlr3cluster

  • Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/.

Other Task: Task, TaskClassif, TaskRegr, TaskSupervised, TaskUnsupervised, mlr_tasks, mlr_tasks_boston_housing, mlr_tasks_german_credit, mlr_tasks_iris, mlr_tasks_mtcars, mlr_tasks_penguins, mlr_tasks_pima, mlr_tasks_sonar, mlr_tasks_spam, mlr_tasks_wine, mlr_tasks_zoo