[jira] [Assigned] (SPARK-7921) Change includeFirst to dropLast in OneHotEncoder

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Apache Spark reassigned SPARK-7921:
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    Assignee: Apache Spark  (was: Xiangrui Meng)

> Change includeFirst to dropLast in OneHotEncoder
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>                 Key: SPARK-7921
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7921
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ML
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Xiangrui Meng
>            Assignee: Apache Spark
>
> Change includeFirst to dropLast and leave the default to true. There are couple benefits:
> a. consistent with other tutorials of one-hot encoding (or dummy coding) (e.g., http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mult_pkg/faq/general/dummy.htm)
> b. keep the indices unmodified in the output vector. If we drop the first, all indices will be shifted by 1.
> c. If users use StringIndex, the last element is the least frequent one.



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