In order to better protect and conserve biodiversity, ecologists use machine learning and statistics to understand how species respond to their environment and to predict how they...
Variable importance measures for random forests have been receiving increased attention as a means of variable selection in many classification tasks in bioinformatics and relate...
Feature selection, as a preprocessing step to machine learning, has been very effective in reducing dimensionality, removing irrelevant data, increasing learning accuracy, and imp...
A conventional way to discriminate between objects represented by dissimilarities is the nearest neighbor method. A more efficient and sometimes a more accurate solution is offere...
Elzbieta Pekalska, Robert P. W. Duin, Pavel Pacl&i...
The crucial issue in many classification applications is how to achieve the best possible classifier with a limited number of labeled data for training. Training data selection is ...