Stability of filter- and wrapper-based feature subset selection

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 374-380

  Wald, Randall ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Napolitano, Amri ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Feature subsets; Filters; Stability; Wrappers

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SUBSET; FEATURE SUBSET SELECTION; FILTER-BASED TECHNIQUE; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; REDUNDANT FEATURES; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; WRAPPER-BASED APPROACH; WRAPPERS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); STABILITY; TOOLS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 84897732205     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2013.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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