sequentialFloatingBackwardSelection: Sequential Floating Backward Selection

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Sequential Floating Backward Selection

Description

Generates a search function based on sequential floating backward selection. This function is called internally within the searchAlgorithm function. The sfbs method \insertCitePudil1994FSinR starts with all the features and removes a single feature at each step with a view to improving the evaluation of the set. In addition, it checks whether adding any of the removed features, improve the value of the set.

Usage

sequentialFloatingBackwardSelection()

Value

Returns a search function that is used to guide the feature selection process.

Author(s)

Adan M. Rodriguez

Francisco Aragón Royón

References

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Examples

 

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

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

# Generates the search function with sfbs
sfbs_search <- sequentialFloatingBackwardSelection()
# Performs the search process directly (parameters: dataset, target variable and evaluator)
sfbs_search(iris, 'Species', filter_evaluator)

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