[R] SVM unbalanced classes

[David Meyer]

You might consider using the `weight' argument of svm().

Best,

David.


Hi!

I am using R 1.8.1 and the svm of the e1071 package for classification.
The problem is that I have unbalanced classes e.g. the first one is much
bigger than the second one and therfore the svm is biased to the first
class.
If I manually adjust the class size the bias disappears.
The question is then how to include this unequal class distribution to
the svm (e.g. via wheights or costs)?

Yours,
Frank
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