# Handling Imbalanced Classes In Logistic Regression

Like many other learning algorithms in scikit-learn, LogisticRegression comes with a built-in method of handling imbalanced classes. If we have highly imbalanced classes and have no addressed it during preprocessing, we have the option of using the class_weight parameter to weight the classes to make certain we have a balanced mix of each class. Specifically, the balanced argument will automatically weigh classes inversely proportional to their frequency:

$$w_j = \frac{n}{kn_{j}}$$

where $w_j$ is the weight to class $j$, $n$ is the number of observations, $n_j$ is the number of observations in class $j$, and $k$ is the total number of classes.

## Preliminaries

# Load libraries
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn import datasets
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
import numpy as np



# Load data
X = iris.data
y = iris.target


## Make Classes Imbalanced

# Make class highly imbalanced by removing first 40 observations
X = X[40:,:]
y = y[40:]

# Create target vector indicating if class 0, otherwise 1
y = np.where((y == 0), 0, 1)


## Standardize Features

# Standarize features
scaler = StandardScaler()
X_std = scaler.fit_transform(X)


## Train A Logistic Regression With Weighted Classes

# Create decision tree classifer object
clf = LogisticRegression(random_state=0, class_weight='balanced')

# Train model
model = clf.fit(X_std, y)