Type: Package
Package: basemodels
Title: Baseline Models for Classification and Regression
Version: 1.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person(given = "Ying-Ju", 
    family = "Chen", 
    role = c("aut", "cre"),
    email = "ychen4@udayton.edu", 
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6444-6859")),
    person(given = "Fadel M.", 
    family = "Megahed", 
    role = "aut",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2194-5110")),
    person(given = "L. Allison", 
    family = "Jones-Farmer", 
    role = "aut",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-1529-1133")),
    person(given = "Steven E.", 
    family = "Rigdon", 
    role = "aut",
    comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7668-0899"))
  )
Description: Providing equivalent functions for the dummy classifier
        and regressor used in 'Python' 'scikit-learn' library. Our goal
        is to allow R users to easily identify baseline performance for
        their classification and regression problems. Our baseline
        models use no predictors, and are useful in cases of class
        imbalance, multiclass classification, and when users want to
        quickly identify how much improvement their statistical and
        machine learning models are over several baseline models. We
        use a "better" default (proportional guessing) for the dummy
        classifier than the 'Python' implementation ("prior", which is
        the most frequent class in the training set). The functions in
        the package can be used on their own, or introduce methods
        named 'dummy_regressor' or 'dummy_classifier' that can be used
        within the caret package pipeline.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Ying-Ju/basemodels
Imports: stats
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
Suggests: caret, knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Repository: https://ying-ju.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2023-07-30 21:30:06 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/ying-ju/basemodels
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: c1837f72a8efbcc2d1c156091a02d9aef20daafd
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-23 06:55:16 UTC; root
Author: Ying-Ju Chen [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6444-6859>),
  Fadel M. Megahed [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2194-5110>),
  L. Allison Jones-Farmer [aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1529-1133>),
  Steven E. Rigdon [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7668-0899>)
Maintainer: Ying-Ju Chen <ychen4@udayton.edu>