Methods and formulas for the cumulative lift chart for Fit Model and Discover Key Predictors with TreeNet® Classification

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The procedure for the calculation of cumulative lift depends on the validation method. For a multinomial response variable, Minitab displays multiple charts that treat each class as the event in turn.

Training set or no validation

For the chart for a training data set, each point on the chart represents a fitted event probability. The highest event probability is the first point on the chart and appears leftmost. The other probabilities are in decreasing order.

The points on the cumulative lift chart follow from the calculation of the points on the ROC curve chart. The y-coordinate of the cumulative lift chart is (True positive rate in percent / cumulative % of population at the x-coordinate). The calculation of the true positive rate is exactly the same as for the ROC curve chart.

The x-coordinate of the chart has the following form:

where is the number of rows where the fitted probability is greater than the threshold and N is the total number of rows. For details on the thresholds, go to Methods and Formulas for the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve chart for Fit Model and Discover Key Predictors with TreeNet® Classification.

Separate test set

Use the same steps as the training set case but calculate the event probability from the cases for the test set.

Test with k-fold cross-validation

Use the same steps as the training data set procedure, but calculate the event probabilities from the cases for the cross-validated data.