sklearn.cross_validation.KFold

class sklearn.cross_validation.KFold(n, n_folds=3, indices=None, shuffle=False, random_state=None)

K-Folds cross validation iterator.

Provides train/test indices to split data in train test sets. Split dataset into k consecutive folds (without shuffling).

Each fold is then used a validation set once while the k - 1 remaining fold form the training set.

Parameters :

n : int

Total number of elements.

n_folds : int, default=3

Number of folds. Must be at least 2.

shuffle : boolean, optional

Whether to shuffle the data before splitting into batches.

random_state : int or RandomState

Pseudo number generator state used for random sampling.

See also

StratifiedKFold

take label information into account to avoid building

folds, classification

Notes

The first n % n_folds folds have size n // n_folds + 1, other folds have size n // n_folds.

Examples

>>> from sklearn import cross_validation
>>> X = np.array([[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2], [3, 4]])
>>> y = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> kf = cross_validation.KFold(4, n_folds=2)
>>> len(kf)
2
>>> print(kf)
sklearn.cross_validation.KFold(n=4, n_folds=2)
>>> for train_index, test_index in kf:
...    print("TRAIN:", train_index, "TEST:", test_index)
...    X_train, X_test = X[train_index], X[test_index]
...    y_train, y_test = y[train_index], y[test_index]
TRAIN: [2 3] TEST: [0 1]
TRAIN: [0 1] TEST: [2 3]

__init__(n, n_folds=3, indices=None, shuffle=False, random_state=None)