Oversampling and Undersampling

A technique for Imbalanced Classification

Kurtis Pykes
Towards Data Science
5 min readSep 10, 2020

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Introduction

The Imbalanced classification problem is what we face when there is a severe skew in the class distribution of our training data. Okay, the skew may not be extremely severe (it can vary), but the reason we identify imbalanced classification as a problem is because it can influence the performance…

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