Minimising the delta test for variable selection in regression problems
by Alberto Guillen, Dusan Sovilj, Amaury Lendasse, Fernando Mateo, Ignacio Rojas
International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHPSA), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2008

Abstract: The problem of selecting an adequate set of variables from a given data set of a sampled function becomes crucial by the time of designing the model that will approximate it. Several approaches have been presented in the literature although recent studies showed how the delta test is a powerful tool to determine if a subset of variables is correct. This paper presents new methodologies based on the delta test such as tabu search, genetic algorithms and the hybridisation of them, to determine a subset of variables which is representative of a function. The paper considers as well the scaling problem where a relevance value is assigned to each variable. The new algorithms were adapted to be run in parallel architectures so better performances could be obtained in a small amount of time, presenting great robustness and scalability.

Online publication date: Sun, 29-Mar-2009

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