selectPercentile: Select Percentile

In FSinR: Feature Selection in R

Select Percentile

Description

Generates a direct search function that selects a fraction, given as a percentage, of the total number of available features (The features evaluation is individual). This function is called internally within the directSearchAlgorithm function.

Usage

selectPercentile(percentile = 80)

Arguments

percentile

Number (positive integer) between 0 and 100

Value

Returns a direct search function that is used in the feature selection process.

Author(s)

Adan M. Rodriguez

Francisco Aragón Royón

Examples

 

## The direct application of this function is an advanced use that consists of using this 
# function directly and performing a direct search process
## Classification problem


# Generates the filter evaluation function
filter_evaluator <- filterEvaluator('IEConsistency')

# Generates the direct search function with percentile
sp_direct_search <- selectPercentile()
# Performs the direct search process directly (parameters: dataset, target variable and evaluator)
sp_direct_search(iris, 'Species', filter_evaluator)

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