filter.by.dependencies: Filters columns (sequence positions) by dependency

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Description

Filters columns based on the average or maximum mutual information of a column to all other columns. Mutual information is normalized to to interval [0,1], where 0 corresponds to independence and 1 to perfect dependence.

Usage

filter.by.dependencies(mi.threshold, use.max = FALSE)

Arguments

mi.threshold	the minimum average or maximum mutual information required
use.max	if TRUE, the maximum and otherwise the average mutual information will be considered

Value

function that, given a DLData object, returns TRUE for every column that does exceed the specified average mutual information

Author(s)

Jan Grau <[e-mail]>

Examples

fun <- filter.by.dependencies(mi.threshold = 0.3)

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