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Medical Cost Personal Dataset - Regression

Updated: Nov 3, 2021



Description :


This dataset explains the cost of a small sample of USA population Medical Insurance Cost based on some attributes such as age, sex, bmi etc.


This dataset corresponds to a practical used in the book Machine Learning with R by Brett Lantz; which is a book that provides an introduction to machine learning using R. All of these datasets are in the public domain but simply needed some cleaning up and recoding to match the format in the book.


Recommended Model :


Algorithms to be used: Regression, SVM, RandomForestRegressor etc.


Recommended Project :

Medical Insurance Cost Prediction



Dataset link:




Overview of data


Detailed overview of dataset:


- Rows = 1338

- Columns= 7


  1. age: age of primary beneficiary

  2. sex: insurance contractor gender, female, male

  3. bmi: Body mass index, providing an understanding of body, weights that are relatively high or low relative to height, objective index of body weight (kg / m ^ 2) using the ratio of height to weight, ideally 18.5 to 24.9

  4. children: Number of children covered by health insurance / Number of dependents

  5. smoker: Smoking

  6. region: the beneficiary's residential area in the US, northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest.

  7. charges: Individual medical costs billed by health insurance



EDA [CODE]


import pandas as pd  
# load data data = pd.read_csv('insurance.csv') 
data.head()

# check details of the dataframe 
data.info()









# check the no.of missing values in each column 
data.isna().sum()

# statistical information about the dataset 
data.describe()


# data distribution  

import seaborn as sns 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

sns.countplot(x='sex', data=data) 
plt.show()

sns.countplot(x='children', data=data) 
plt.show()

sns.countplot(x='smoker', data=data) 
plt.show()

sns.countplot(x='region', data=data) 
plt.show()

sns.histplot(data['age'], kde=False)
plt.show()

sns.histplot(data['bmi'], kde=False)
plt.show()

sns.histplot(data['charges'], kde=False)
plt.show()



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