fs_ig {daltoolboxdp}

Information Gain

Description

Information Gain is a feature selection technique based on information theory. It measures the information obtained for the target variable by knowing the presence or absence of a feature. It wraps the FSelector library.

Usage

fs_ig(attribute)

Arguments

attribute

The target variable.

Value

A fs_ig object.

Examples

data(iris)
myfeature <- daltoolbox::fit(fs_ig("Species"), iris)
data <- daltoolbox::transform(myfeature, iris)
head(data)