Help on function cross_val_score in module sklearn.cross_validation:
cross_val_score(estimator, X, y=None, scoring=None, cv=None, n_jobs=1, verbose=0, fit_params=None, pre_dispatch='2*n_jobs')
Evaluate a score by cross-validation
Read more in the :ref:`User Guide <cross_validation>`.
Parameters
----------
estimator : estimator object implementing 'fit'
The object to use to fit the data.
X : array-like
The data to fit. Can be, for example a list, or an array at least 2d.
y : array-like, optional, default: None
The target variable to try to predict in the case of
supervised learning.
scoring : string, callable or None, optional, default: None
A string (see model evaluation documentation) or
a scorer callable object / function with signature
``scorer(estimator, X, y)``.
cv : int, cross-validation generator or an iterable, optional
Determines the cross-validation splitting strategy.
Possible inputs for cv are:
- None, to use the default 3-fold cross-validation,
- integer, to specify the number of folds.
- An object to be used as a cross-validation generator.
- An iterable yielding train/test splits.
For integer/None inputs, if ``y`` is binary or multiclass,
:class:`StratifiedKFold` used. If the estimator is a classifier
or if ``y`` is neither binary nor multiclass, :class:`KFold` is used.
Refer :ref:`User Guide <cross_validation>` for the various
cross-validation strategies that can be used here.
n_jobs : integer, optional
The number of CPUs to use to do the computation. -1 means
'all CPUs'.
verbose : integer, optional
The verbosity level.
fit_params : dict, optional
Parameters to pass to the fit method of the estimator.
pre_dispatch : int, or string, optional
Controls the number of jobs that get dispatched during parallel
execution. Reducing this number can be useful to avoid an
explosion of memory consumption when more jobs get dispatched
than CPUs can process. This parameter can be:
- None, in which case all the jobs are immediately
created and spawned. Use this for lightweight and
fast-running jobs, to avoid delays due to on-demand
spawning of the jobs
- An int, giving the exact number of total jobs that are
spawned
- A string, giving an expression as a function of n_jobs,
as in '2*n_jobs'
Returns
-------
scores : array of float, shape=(len(list(cv)),)
Array of scores of the estimator for each run of the cross validation.