A review of the stability of feature selection techniques for bioinformatics data

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 356-363

  Awada, Wael ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Dittman, David ^a   Wald, Randall ^a   Napolitano, Amri ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; feature selection; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS DATA; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; DNA MICROARRAY DATA; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; FEATURE RANKING; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; GENETIC CODE; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SELECTION TECHNIQUES;

BIOINFORMATICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENES; INFORMATION USE; RESEARCH;

STABILITY;

EID: 84868316145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2012.6303031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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