backward difference encoding complete code
## Importing Libraries import pandas as pd from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.metrics import classification_report from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier from category_encoders import BackwardDifferenceEncoder ## Download the Dataset columns=['class','age','menopause','tumor_size','inv_nodes','node_caps','deg_malig','breast','breast_quad','irradiat'] df=pd.read_csv("https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/breast-cancer/breast-cancer.data",names=columns) ## Data Processing df['class']=df['class'].apply(lambda x: 0 if x=='no-recurrence-events' else 1) categorical_data=df.select_dtypes(include=['object']) df_bde=df.copy() ## Encoding for column_name in categorical_data.columns : bde = BackwardDifferenceEncoder() transformed_data=bde.fit_transform(categorical_data[column_name]) df_bde[transformed_data.columns ] =transformed_data ## Splitting Dataset df_bde=df_bde.drop(columns=categorical_data.columns) y=df_bde.pop('class') X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(df_bde, y, test_size=0.1, random_state=42) ## Model Implementation clf = RandomForestClassifier() clf = clf.fit(X_train, y_train) predictions=clf.predict(X_test) print(classification_report(predictions,y_test))