8.3.6. sklearn.cross_validation.LeavePOut

class sklearn.cross_validation.LeavePOut(n, p, indices=True)

Leave-P-Out cross validation iterator

Provides train/test indices to split data in train test sets. The test set is built using p samples while the remaining samples form the training set.

Due to the high number of iterations which grows with the number of samples this cross validation method can be very costly. For large datasets one should favor KFold, StratifiedKFold or ShuffleSplit.

Parameters :

n: int :

Total number of elements

p: int :

Size of the test sets

indices: boolean, optional (default True) :

Return train/test split as arrays of indices, rather than a boolean mask array. Integer indices are required when dealing with sparse matrices, since those cannot be indexed by boolean masks.

Examples

>>> from sklearn import cross_validation
>>> X = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6], [7, 8]])
>>> y = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> lpo = cross_validation.LeavePOut(4, 2)
>>> len(lpo)
6
>>> print lpo
sklearn.cross_validation.LeavePOut(n=4, p=2)
>>> for train_index, test_index in lpo:
...    print "TRAIN:", train_index, "TEST:", test_index
...    X_train, X_test = X[train_index], X[test_index]
...    y_train, y_test = y[train_index], y[test_index]
TRAIN: [2 3] TEST: [0 1]
TRAIN: [1 3] TEST: [0 2]
TRAIN: [1 2] TEST: [0 3]
TRAIN: [0 3] TEST: [1 2]
TRAIN: [0 2] TEST: [1 3]
TRAIN: [0 1] TEST: [2 3]

__init__(n, p, indices=True)