FSinR (version 1.0.8)

mutualInformation: The mutual information measure

Description

This measure calculates the mutual information value, using the information theory QianShu2015FSinR.

Usage

mutualInformation(data, class, features)

Arguments

data

• A data frame with the features and the class of the examples. Feature columns are expected to be factors, as all features should be discrete.

class

• The name of the dependent variable

features

• The names of the selected features

Value

• The mutual information value for the selected features

References

Examples

# NOT RUN {
mutualInformation(iris,'Species',c('Sepal.Width', 'Sepal.Length'))
# }