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I am using the Orange data mining tool to build and analyze models (decision tree, ANN, ...) predicting customer churn. As this is an imbalanced class problem (10% churn, 90% not churn), I need to oversample within the cross validation. However, I am not totally able to implement this by myself. Is there anyone with some Orange knowledge that could help me?

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Orange does not have over/undersampling. Our reasoning is that if you model a problem with 10% positive class, than you should not train the model with 50:50 class distribution - it will not reflect the real life. However, there's an option in Orange in LogReg and Random Forest to balance class distribution, which considers class distribution when building a model.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for your answer. I was wondering where I could find this Option in LogReg and Random Forests? Do you have to activate this option or is it build-in? Because I don't see it in the API of Logistic regression or Random Forests? $\endgroup$
    – Emma Bartholomeeusen
    Dec 15, 2020 at 14:20
  • $\begingroup$ It is the class_weight parameter. $\endgroup$
    – vijolica
    Dec 16, 2020 at 8:12
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you. Are you somewhat familiar with Orange? Because I am struggling with a few basic operations on a datatable and looking for someone who could help me get started.. $\endgroup$
    – Emma Bartholomeeusen
    Dec 16, 2020 at 10:29

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