A dependency-based search strategy for feature selection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 12392-12398

  Al Ani, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dependency; Feature selection; Mutual information; Search strategy

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SETS; FEATURE SPACE; FEATURE SUBSET; MUTUAL INFORMATION; SEARCH SPACES; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH STRATEGY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 69249211006     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.04.057     Document Type: Article

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