NoiseFiltersR (version 0.1.0)

AENN: All-k Edited Nearest Neighbors

Description

Similarity-based filter for removing label noise from a dataset as a preprocessing step of classification. For more information, see 'Details' and 'References' sections.

Usage

"AENN"(formula, data, ...)
"AENN"(x, k = 5, classColumn = ncol(x), ...)

Arguments

formula

A formula describing the classification variable and the attributes to be used.

data, x

Data frame containing the tranining dataset to be filtered.

...

Optional parameters to be passed to other methods.

k

Total number of nearest neighbors to be used.

classColumn

Positive integer indicating the column which contains the (factor of) classes. By default, the last column is considered.

Value

An object of class filter, which is a list with seven components:

• cleanData is a data frame containing the filtered dataset.
• remIdx is a vector of integers indicating the indexes for removed instances (i.e. their row number with respect to the original data frame).
• repIdx is a vector of integers indicating the indexes for repaired/relabelled instances (i.e. their row number with respect to the original data frame).
• repLab contains the new labels for repaired instances.
• parameters is a list containing the argument values.
• call contains the original call to the filter.
• extraInf is a character that includes additional interesting information not covered by previous items.

Details

AENN applies the Edited Nearest Neighbor algorithm ENN for all integers between 1 and k on the whole dataset. At the end, any instance considered noisy by some ENN is removed.

References

Tomek I. (1976, June): An Experiment with the Edited Nearest-Neighbor Rule, in Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on, vol.SMC-6, no.6, pp. 448-452.

Examples

# Next example is not run in order to save time
## Not run: 
# data(iris)
# out <- AENN(Species~.-Petal.Length,iris)
# print(out)
# identical(out$cleanData, iris[setdiff(1:nrow(iris),out$remIdx),])
# ## End(Not run)