Impact of Box-Cox Transformation on Machine-Learning Algorithms


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2022-04-07

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Abstract

This paper studied the effects of applying the Box-Cox transformation for classification tasks. Different optimization strategies were evaluated, and the results were promising on four synthetic datasets and two real-world datasets. A consistent improvement in accuracy was demonstrated using a grid exploration with cross-validation. In conclusion, applying the Box-Cox transformation could drastically improve the performance by up to a 12% accuracy increase. Moreover, the Box-Cox parameter choice was dependent on the data and the used classifier.

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5

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877569

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Frontiers Media

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Box-Cox transformation; power transformation; Non-linear mappings; feature transformation; accuracy improvement; classifier optimization; preprocessing data; monotonic transformation

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09715 - Menon, Carlo / Menon, Carlo check_circle

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