caret (version 5.07-005)

caretFuncs: Backwards Feature Selection Helper Functions

Description

Ancillary fuctions for backwards selection

Usage

pickSizeTolerance(x, metric, tol = 1.5, maximize) 
pickSizeBest(x, metric, maximize) 
pickVars(y, size) 
caretFuncs
lmFuncs
rfFuncs
treebagFuncs
ldaFuncs
nbFuncs
gamFuncs

Details

This page describes the functions that are used in backwards selection (aka recursive feature elimination). The funcitons described here are passed to the algorithm via the functions argument of rfeControl.

See rfeControl for details on how these functions should be defined.

See Also

rfeControl, rfe