Feature Selection
Feature selection approaches try to find a subset of the original variables (also called features or attributes). Two strategies are filter (e.g. information gain) and wrapper (e.g. search guided by the accuracy) approaches. See also combinatorial optimization problems.
In some cases, data analysis such as regression or classification can be done in the reduced space more accurately than in the original space.
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