Permutation importance: A corrected feature importance measure

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1340-1347

  Altmann, André ^a   Toloşi, Laura ^a   Sander, Oliver ^a,b   Lengauer, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LINEAR MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 77952814988     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq134     Document Type: Article

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