""" ============================================================= Class Likelihood Ratios to measure classification performance ============================================================= This example demonstrates the :func:`~sklearn.metrics.class_likelihood_ratios` function, which computes the positive and negative likelihood ratios (`LR+`, `LR-`) to assess the predictive power of a binary classifier. As we will see, these metrics are independent of the proportion between classes in the test set, which makes them very useful when the available data for a study has a different class proportion than the target application. A typical use is a case-control study in medicine, which has nearly balanced classes while the general population has large class imbalance. In such application, the pre-test probability of an individual having the target condition can be chosen to be the prevalence, i.e. the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition. The post-test probabilities represent then the probability that the condition is truly present given a positive test result. In this example we first discuss the link between pre-test and post-test odds given by the :ref:`class_likelihood_ratios`. Then we evaluate their behavior in some controlled scenarios. In the last section we plot them as a function of the prevalence of the positive class. """ # Authors: The scikit-learn developers # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause # %% # Pre-test vs. post-test analysis # =============================== # # Suppose we have a population of subjects with physiological measurements `X` # that can hopefully serve as indirect bio-markers of the disease and actual # disease indicators `y` (ground truth). Most of the people in the population do # not carry the disease but a minority (in this case around 10%) does: from sklearn.datasets import make_classification X, y = make_classification(n_samples=10_000, weights=[0.9, 0.1], random_state=0) print(f"Percentage of people carrying the disease: {100*y.mean():.2f}%") # %% # A machine learning model is built to diagnose if a person with some given # physiological measurements is likely to carry the disease of interest. To # evaluate the model, we need to assess its performance on a held-out test set: from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, random_state=0) # %% # Then we can fit our diagnosis model and compute the positive likelihood # ratio to evaluate the usefulness of this classifier as a disease diagnosis # tool: from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression from sklearn.metrics import class_likelihood_ratios estimator = LogisticRegression().fit(X_train, y_train) y_pred = estimator.predict(X_test) pos_LR, neg_LR = class_likelihood_ratios(y_test, y_pred) print(f"LR+: {pos_LR:.3f}") # %% # Since the positive class likelihood ratio is much larger than 1.0, it means # that the machine learning-based diagnosis tool is useful: the post-test odds # that the condition is truly present given a positive test result are more than # 12 times larger than the pre-test odds. # # Cross-validation of likelihood ratios # ===================================== # # We assess the variability of the measurements for the class likelihood ratios # in some particular cases. import pandas as pd def scoring(estimator, X, y): y_pred = estimator.predict(X) pos_lr, neg_lr = class_likelihood_ratios(y, y_pred, raise_warning=False) return {"positive_likelihood_ratio": pos_lr, "negative_likelihood_ratio": neg_lr} def extract_score(cv_results): lr = pd.DataFrame( { "positive": cv_results["test_positive_likelihood_ratio"], "negative": cv_results["test_negative_likelihood_ratio"], } ) return lr.aggregate(["mean", "std"]) # %% # We first validate the :class:`~sklearn.linear_model.LogisticRegression` model # with default hyperparameters as used in the previous section. from sklearn.model_selection import cross_validate estimator = LogisticRegression() extract_score(cross_validate(estimator, X, y, scoring=scoring, cv=10)) # %% # We confirm that the model is useful: the post-test odds are between 12 and 20 # times larger than the pre-test odds. # # On the contrary, let's consider a dummy model that will output random # predictions with similar odds as the average disease prevalence in the # training set: from sklearn.dummy import DummyClassifier estimator = DummyClassifier(strategy="stratified", random_state=1234) extract_score(cross_validate(estimator, X, y, scoring=scoring, cv=10)) # %% # Here both class likelihood ratios are compatible with 1.0 which makes this # classifier useless as a diagnostic tool to improve disease detection. # # Another option for the dummy model is to always predict the most frequent # class, which in this case is "no-disease". estimator = DummyClassifier(strategy="most_frequent") extract_score(cross_validate(estimator, X, y, scoring=scoring, cv=10)) # %% # The absence of positive predictions means there will be no true positives nor # false positives, leading to an undefined `LR+` that by no means should be # interpreted as an infinite `LR+` (the classifier perfectly identifying # positive cases). In such situation the # :func:`~sklearn.metrics.class_likelihood_ratios` function returns `nan` and # raises a warning by default. Indeed, the value of `LR-` helps us discard this # model. # # A similar scenario may arise when cross-validating highly imbalanced data with # few samples: some folds will have no samples with the disease and therefore # they will output no true positives nor false negatives when used for testing. # Mathematically this leads to an infinite `LR+`, which should also not be # interpreted as the model perfectly identifying positive cases. Such event # leads to a higher variance of the estimated likelihood ratios, but can still # be interpreted as an increment of the post-test odds of having the condition. estimator = LogisticRegression() X, y = make_classification(n_samples=300, weights=[0.9, 0.1], random_state=0) extract_score(cross_validate(estimator, X, y, scoring=scoring, cv=10)) # %% # Invariance with respect to prevalence # ===================================== # # The likelihood ratios are independent of the disease prevalence and can be # extrapolated between populations regardless of any possible class imbalance, # **as long as the same model is applied to all of them**. Notice that in the # plots below **the decision boundary is constant** (see # :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_svm_plot_separating_hyperplane_unbalanced.py` for # a study of the boundary decision for unbalanced classes). # # Here we train a :class:`~sklearn.linear_model.LogisticRegression` base model # on a case-control study with a prevalence of 50%. It is then evaluated over # populations with varying prevalence. We use the # :func:`~sklearn.datasets.make_classification` function to ensure the # data-generating process is always the same as shown in the plots below. The # label `1` corresponds to the positive class "disease", whereas the label `0` # stands for "no-disease". from collections import defaultdict import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np from sklearn.inspection import DecisionBoundaryDisplay populations = defaultdict(list) common_params = { "n_samples": 10_000, "n_features": 2, "n_informative": 2, "n_redundant": 0, "random_state": 0, } weights = np.linspace(0.1, 0.8, 6) weights = weights[::-1] # fit and evaluate base model on balanced classes X, y = make_classification(**common_params, weights=[0.5, 0.5]) estimator = LogisticRegression().fit(X, y) lr_base = extract_score(cross_validate(estimator, X, y, scoring=scoring, cv=10)) pos_lr_base, pos_lr_base_std = lr_base["positive"].values neg_lr_base, neg_lr_base_std = lr_base["negative"].values # %% # We will now show the decision boundary for each level of prevalence. Note that # we only plot a subset of the original data to better assess the linear model # decision boundary. fig, axs = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=2, figsize=(15, 12)) for ax, (n, weight) in zip(axs.ravel(), enumerate(weights)): X, y = make_classification( **common_params, weights=[weight, 1 - weight], ) prevalence = y.mean() populations["prevalence"].append(prevalence) populations["X"].append(X) populations["y"].append(y) # down-sample for plotting rng = np.random.RandomState(1) plot_indices = rng.choice(np.arange(X.shape[0]), size=500, replace=True) X_plot, y_plot = X[plot_indices], y[plot_indices] # plot fixed decision boundary of base model with varying prevalence disp = DecisionBoundaryDisplay.from_estimator( estimator, X_plot, response_method="predict", alpha=0.5, ax=ax, ) scatter = disp.ax_.scatter(X_plot[:, 0], X_plot[:, 1], c=y_plot, edgecolor="k") disp.ax_.set_title(f"prevalence = {y_plot.mean():.2f}") disp.ax_.legend(*scatter.legend_elements()) # %% # We define a function for bootstrapping. def scoring_on_bootstrap(estimator, X, y, rng, n_bootstrap=100): results_for_prevalence = defaultdict(list) for _ in range(n_bootstrap): bootstrap_indices = rng.choice( np.arange(X.shape[0]), size=X.shape[0], replace=True ) for key, value in scoring( estimator, X[bootstrap_indices], y[bootstrap_indices] ).items(): results_for_prevalence[key].append(value) return pd.DataFrame(results_for_prevalence) # %% # We score the base model for each prevalence using bootstrapping. results = defaultdict(list) n_bootstrap = 100 rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=0) for prevalence, X, y in zip( populations["prevalence"], populations["X"], populations["y"] ): results_for_prevalence = scoring_on_bootstrap( estimator, X, y, rng, n_bootstrap=n_bootstrap ) results["prevalence"].append(prevalence) results["metrics"].append( results_for_prevalence.aggregate(["mean", "std"]).unstack() ) results = pd.DataFrame(results["metrics"], index=results["prevalence"]) results.index.name = "prevalence" results # %% # In the plots below we observe that the class likelihood ratios re-computed # with different prevalences are indeed constant within one standard deviation # of those computed with on balanced classes. fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(15, 6)) results["positive_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"].plot( ax=ax1, color="r", label="extrapolation through populations" ) ax1.axhline(y=pos_lr_base + pos_lr_base_std, color="r", linestyle="--") ax1.axhline( y=pos_lr_base - pos_lr_base_std, color="r", linestyle="--", label="base model confidence band", ) ax1.fill_between( results.index, results["positive_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"] - results["positive_likelihood_ratio"]["std"], results["positive_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"] + results["positive_likelihood_ratio"]["std"], color="r", alpha=0.3, ) ax1.set( title="Positive likelihood ratio", ylabel="LR+", ylim=[0, 5], ) ax1.legend(loc="lower right") ax2 = results["negative_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"].plot( ax=ax2, color="b", label="extrapolation through populations" ) ax2.axhline(y=neg_lr_base + neg_lr_base_std, color="b", linestyle="--") ax2.axhline( y=neg_lr_base - neg_lr_base_std, color="b", linestyle="--", label="base model confidence band", ) ax2.fill_between( results.index, results["negative_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"] - results["negative_likelihood_ratio"]["std"], results["negative_likelihood_ratio"]["mean"] + results["negative_likelihood_ratio"]["std"], color="b", alpha=0.3, ) ax2.set( title="Negative likelihood ratio", ylabel="LR-", ylim=[0, 0.5], ) ax2.legend(loc="lower right") plt.show()