Analysis of Feature Rankings for Classification

Different ways of contrast generated rankings by feature selection algorithms are presented in this paper, showing several possible interpretations, depending on the given approach to each study. We begin from the premise of no existence of only one ideal subset for all cases. The purpose of these k...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Ruiz Sánchez, Roberto, Aguilar Ruiz, Jesús Salvador, Riquelme Santos, José Cristóbal, Díaz Díaz, Norberto
Format: book part
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2005
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/39727
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/39727
https://doi.org/10.1007/11552253_33
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Artificial intelligence
Information storage and retrieval
Probability and statistics in Computer Science
Pattern recognition
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Summary:Different ways of contrast generated rankings by feature selection algorithms are presented in this paper, showing several possible interpretations, depending on the given approach to each study. We begin from the premise of no existence of only one ideal subset for all cases. The purpose of these kinds of algorithms is to reduce the data set to each first attributes without losing prediction against the original data set. In this paper we propose a method, feature–ranking performance, to compare different feature–ranking methods, based on the Area Under Feature Ranking Classification Performance Curve (AURC). Conclusions and trends taken from this paper propose support for the performance of learning tasks, where some ranking algorithms studied here operate.