- University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh United States
- University of Mary United States
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology China (People's Republic of)
- Washington State University United States
- HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY China (People's Republic of)
- UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON United States
- University of Washington United States
In this paper, a novel feature selection method is presented, which is based on Class-Separability (CS) strategy and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). To better capture the relationship between features and the class, class labels are separated into individual variables and relevance and redundancy are explicitly handled on each class label. Super-efficiency DEA is employed to evaluate and rank features via their conditional dependence scores on all class labels, and the feature with maximum super-efficiency score is then added in the conditioning set for conditional dependence estimation in the next iteration, in such a way as to iteratively select features and get the final selected features. Eventually, experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method comparing with four state-of-the-art methods from the viewpoint of classification accuracy. Empirical results verify the feasibility and the superiority of proposed feature selection method.
23 pages, 12 figures