PRTools contents

PRTools manual

featseli

FEATSELI

Individual feature selection for classification

  [W,R] = FEATSELI(A,CRIT,K,T)

Input
 A Training dataset
 CRIT Name of the criterion or untrained mapping  (default: 'NN', i.e. the 1-Nearest Neighbor error)
 K Number of features to select (default: sort all features)
 T Tuning dataset (optional)

Output
 W Feature selection mapping
 R Matrix with criterion values

Description

Individual selection of K features using the dataset A. CRIT sets the  criterion used by the feature evaluation routine FEATEVAL. If the dataset  T is given, it is used as test set for FEATEVAL. For K = 0 all features are  selected, but reordered according to the criterion. The result W can be  used for selecting features using B*W.  The selected features are stored in W.DATA and can be found by +W.  In R, the search is reported step by step as

     R(:,1) : number of features
     R(:,2) : criterion value
     R(:,3) : added / deleted feature

See also

mappings, datasets, feateval, featselo, featselb, featself,

 FEATSEL, FEATSELP, FEATSELM

PRTools contents

PRTools manual