A feature selection technique for classificatory analysis

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-56

  Ahmad, Amir ^a   Dey, Lipika ^b  

^a SOLID STATE PHYSICS LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Classificatory knowledge extraction; Feature selection; Significance of attributes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

CLASSIFICATORY KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; FEATURE SELECTION; SIGNIFICANCE OF ATTRIBUTES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 9644265275     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.08.015     Document Type: Article

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