Feature selection algorithms in classification problems: An experimental evaluation

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-82

  Doumpos, Michael ^a   Salappa, Athina ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Knowledge discovery; Machine learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

FEATURE SELECTION; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 18844461996     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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