Feature Selection with Mutual Information for Regression Problems

• Main Authors: Muhammad Aliyu, Sulaiman, Jane, Labadin
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13447/1/Feature%20Selection%20with%20Mutual%20Information%20%28abstract%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13447/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Selecting relevant features for machine learning modeling improves the performance of the learning methods. Mutual information (MI) is known to be used as relevant criterion for selecting feature subsets from input dataset with a nonlinear relationship to the predicting attribute. However, mutu...