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filter.by.dependencies: Filters columns (sequence positions) by dependency

Description

Filters columns based on the average or maximum mutual information of a column to all other columns. Mutual information is normalized to to interval [0,1], where 0 corresponds to independence and 1 to perfect dependence.

Usage

filter.by.dependencies(mi.threshold, use.max = FALSE)

Value

function that, given a DLData object, returns TRUE

for every column that does exceed the specified average mutual information

Arguments

mi.threshold

the minimum average or maximum mutual information required

use.max

if TRUE, the maximum and otherwise the average mutual information will be considered

Author

Jan Grau <[e-mail]>

Examples

fun <- filter.by.dependencies(mi.threshold = 0.3)