R help - Jul 2005 - setting weights for such a two-class problem in nnet andsvm

======= At 2005-07-22, 12:56:12 you wrote: ======
>On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Baoqiang Cao wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have such a two-class problem, one class is very large(~98% of
total),
>> and the other is just 2%. According to manual of nnet, I need setup 
>> "weights", so I intend to set 1 for class one, 49 for class
2. How do I
>> do that? Just weights=49?
>
>I do not know what you mean by `manual of nnet', but no, not that since 
>the help page says
>
>   weights: (case) weights for each example - if missing defaults to 1.
>
Thanks! I should have said "according to the help
page"...
>More likely you want ifelse(class==1, 1/49, 1).
>
>However, there is more to it than that, and do please read the reference 
>books on the help page.
Unfortunately, the two refered books(all by you) were all borrowed by someone
else, nothing left in the library. Beside waiting longer or buy one, would you
breifly mention some of what you think should be aware of? I'm hoping to
find a optimal feature space with better predictions. Thanks.

Best,
 Baoqiang Cao
  
>
>
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