Out Of Bag Evaluation

Machine Learning with Tree-Based Models in Python

Elie Kawerk

Data Scientist

Bagging

some instances may be sampled several times for one model,
other instances may not be sampled at all.

Out Of Bag (OOB) instances

On average, for each model, 63% of the training instances are sampled.
The remaining 37% constitute the OOB instances.

OOB Evaluation

oob-evaluation

OOB Evaluation in sklearn (Breast Cancer Dataset)

# Import models and split utility function
from sklearn.ensemble import BaggingClassifier
from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

# Set seed for reproducibility
SEED = 1

# Split data into 70% train and 30% test
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test =  train_test_split(X, y, test_size= 0.3,
                                                     stratify= y,
                                                     random_state=SEED)

# Instantiate a classification-tree 'dt'
dt = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=4,
                            min_samples_leaf=0.16,
                            random_state=SEED)

# Instantiate a BaggingClassifier 'bc'; set oob_score = True 
bc = BaggingClassifier(base_estimator=dt, n_estimators=300,
                       oob_score=True, n_jobs=-1)


# Fit 'bc' to the training set
bc.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Predict the test set labels
y_pred = bc.predict(X_test)

# Evaluate test set accuracy
test_accuracy = accuracy_score(y_test, y_pred)

# Extract the OOB accuracy from 'bc'
oob_accuracy = bc.oob_score_

# Print test set accuracy
print('Test set accuracy: {:.3f}'.format(test_accuracy))

Test set accuracy: 0.936

# Print OOB accuracy
print('OOB accuracy: {:.3f}'.format(oob_accuracy))

OOB accuracy: 0.925

Let's practice!

Machine Learning with Tree-Based Models in Python