R: The Insurance Company (TIC) Benchmark

caravan.train {agtboost} | R Documentation

## The Insurance Company (TIC) Benchmark

### Description

`caravan.train` and `caravan.test` both contain a design matrix with 85 columns and a response vector. The train set consists of 70% of the data, with 4075 rows. The test set consists of the remaining 30% with 1747 rows. The following references the documentation within the ISLR package: The original data contains 5822 real customer records. Each record consists of 86 variables, containing sociodemographic data (variables 1-43) and product ownership (variables 44-86). The sociodemographic data is derived from zip codes. All customers living in areas with the same zip code have the same sociodemographic attributes. Variable 86 (`Purchase`) indicates whether the customer purchased a caravan insurance policy. Further information on the individual variables can be obtained at http://www.liacs.nl/~putten/library/cc2000/data.html

### Usage

    caravan.train; caravan.test

### Format

Lists with a design matrix `x` and response `y`

### Source

The data was originally supplied by Sentient Machine Research and was used in the CoIL Challenge 2000.

### References

P. van der Putten and M. van Someren (eds) . CoIL Challenge 2000: The Insurance Company Case. Published by Sentient Machine Research, Amsterdam. Also a Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Technical Report 2000-09. June 22, 2000. See http://www.liacs.nl/~putten/library/cc2000/
P. van der Putten and M. van Someren. A Bias-Variance Analysis of a Real World Learning Problem: The CoIL Challenge 2000. Machine Learning, October 2004, vol. 57, iss. 1-2, pp. 177-195, Kluwer Academic Publishers
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, https://trevorhastie.github.io/ISLR/, Springer-Verlag, New York

### Examples

    summary(caravan.train)
    summary(caravan.test)

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