Are more features better? A response to attributes reduction using fuzzy rough sets

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1456-1458

  Jensen, Richard ^a   Shen, Qiang ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimensionality reduction; Feature selection (FS); Fuzzy rough sets

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTES REDUCTION; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; DATA SETS; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; FUZZY-ROUGH SETS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS;

DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 72649106562     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2009.2026639     Document Type: Article

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