Questions tagged [scaling]

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Splitting and scaling of ML training and test data

I gather you are supposed to split data into training and test before you scale/shift to avoid data leakage. The issue I have with this is how do you cope with values in the test set that are outside of the range of those in the training set?…
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Combining standardizing and normalizing my input data for ML gives the best results, why?

When I combine standardizing and normalizing my input data for my hybrid ANN model, it gives the best results. But I can't find anywhere, why. I based it on a paper's approach but they don't justify their practice either. Anyone knows…
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Should normalization be applied on interaction feature

I am working with interaction features in my machine learning model, where I create new features by multiplying a numeric variable with an encoded categorical feature. My question is: Should normalization be applied to these interaction terms? If…
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Time series Data Scaling - per individual or combined?

I have data on many cars over time (a few years per car) I am planning on creating a model for all the cars combined (not one model per car). Do I want to scale the data (Normalize / Standardize) per car or for all the cars combined? e.g. If…
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Scaling and handling highly correlated features in tabular data for regression

I am working on a regression problem trying to predict a target variable with seven predictor variables. I have a tabular dataset of 1400 rows. Before delving into the machine learning to build a predictor, I did an EDA(exploratory data analysis)…