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Artifacts of Markov blanket filtering based on discretized features in small sample size applications

✍ Scribed by Theo A. Knijnenburg; Marcel J.T. Reinders; Lodewyk F.A. Wessels


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
153 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-8655

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✦ Synopsis


Markov blanket filtering based on discretized features (MBF) has been proposed as a feature selection strategy. Critical evaluation of MBF has demonstrated its contradictory and counterintuitive nature, which results in undesirable properties for small sample size applications such as classification based on microarray gene expression data.