xgboost : The meaning of the base_score parameter
问题 In the documentation of xgboost I read: base_score [default=0.5] : the initial prediction score of all instances, global bias What is the meaning of this phrase? Is the base score the prior probability of the Event of Interest in the Dataset? I.e. in a dataset of 1,000 observations with 300 Positives and 700 Negatives the base score would be 0.3? If not, what it would be? Your advice will be appreciated. 回答1: I think your understanding is correct, in your example the base score could be set