Why does the correlation matrix show the minority class when the majority class was selected

Question

I'm running a simple classification model to predict the presence or absence of heart disease based on multiple risk factors. When I run Automodel I specify the class of interest being the "presence of heart disease". After the algorithms have run I took a look at the correlation matrix and the obvious risk factors showed a negative correlation with heart disease. When I expanded the attribute column I now realize that the correlation matrix is based on the "absence of heart disease". That is why the results are counter-intuitive. Any idea why this might be? Thanka

DocMusher · Accepted Answer

@GeezerDoc

If you don't mind could you send me the data you are mentioning or is the data available somewhere. From my perspective I am also interested to see what happens and how the correlation matrix looks like. It is important to be able to explain the step or how you should make any interpretation if you want to demonstrate your results to your colleagues.

Sven Van Poucke, MD, PhD

GeezerDoc · Accepted Answer

I will attach the Heart Prediction File and you can run it to predict "Heart Disease Present" and see what happens. I have also run it with the class as 0,1 but RapidMiner interpreted that as regression so had to tell it to do classification

GeezerDoc · Accepted Answer

@varunm1
While I don't think your response answered my initial question it may have answered another question that I had and that was related to "one hot encoding". Are you saying that AutoModel automatically uses this technique when it sees categorical data? If that is so, there is not need to convert categorical data using a visual operator before uploading the data to AutoModel. Please elaborate and thanks

DocMusher · Accepted Answer

Hi @GeezerDoc 
I used your data with the following process:
Any feedback is welcome!
Sven

MartinLiebig · Accepted Answer

@GeezerDoc,

yes. AM is doing this if the model cannot handle this and the model cannot handle nominal data. This is a very good go-to method to do - thats why AM is doing it.

Cheers,
Martin