On Feature Selection through Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Richard Butterworth;Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro;Dan A. Simovici

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts at Boston;KDnuggets;University of Massachusetts at Boston

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study an algorithm for feature selection that clusters attributes using a special metric and then makes use of the dendrogram of the resulting cluster hierarchy to choose the most relevant attributes. The main interest of our technique resides in the improved understanding of the structure of the analyzed data and of the relative importance of the attributes for the selection process.