RobustScaler (Spark 3.5.5 JavaDoc) (original) (raw)


public class RobustScaler
extends Estimator<RobustScalerModel>
implements RobustScalerParams, DefaultParamsWritable
Scale features using statistics that are robust to outliers. RobustScaler removes the median and scales the data according to the quantile range. The quantile range is by default IQR (Interquartile Range, quantile range between the 1st quartile = 25th quantile and the 3rd quartile = 75th quantile) but can be configured. Centering and scaling happen independently on each feature by computing the relevant statistics on the samples in the training set. Median and quantile range are then stored to be used on later data using the transform method. Standardization of a dataset is a common requirement for many machine learning estimators. Typically this is done by removing the mean and scaling to unit variance. However, outliers can often influence the sample mean / variance in a negative way. In such cases, the median and the quantile range often give better results. Note that NaN values are ignored in the computation of medians and ranges.
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