inflection_point

• Available in Data Preparation for Target Encoding

Description

The inflection point value is used for blending and to calculate lambda. This determines half of the minimal sample size for which we completely trust the estimate based on the sample in the particular level of the categorical variable. This value defaults value to 10.

Related Parameters

• blended_avg
• noise
• smoothing
• holdout_type

Example

Refer to the Target Encoding data munging topic to view a detailed example.